Most know little of
Madame Tussaud, except that her name is synonymous with tourist attractions containing wax statues of the most recent Big Brother contestant or philandering footballer. Today, Madam Tussauds is a global business franchise own by Merlin entertainments and grossing tens of millions of pounds annually and, yet, very few people know anything about the woman after whom the wax-work museum is named. This could be about to change
with the announcement that the story of Marie Tussauds life is to be adapted for the silver screen.
Stephane Sperry has been identified as the films producer- provisionally entitled
Madame T and his company, Liasion Films, will be raising funds for the film in conjunction with Ledoux and Double Entente Films. The screenplay has already been completed by
Alessamdro Camon (The Messenger) and Bruno Ledoux and is currently doing the round of the producers favoured- though thus far unnamed- directors. The film is set to detail all the key aspects of Marie Tussauds extraordinairy life, from being taught wax sculpting in Switzerland by Dr Philippe Curtius- for whom her mother was a house-keeper- in the youth, to being days away from execution during the French revolution, to- ultimately- sculpting death masks of the dead for the revolutionaries. No actress has yet been suggested for the films title role and no production dates have been set, although it may be expected that there will be something of a clamour to portray a woman whose name remains so famous and about which too little is generally know.