Lily Collins To Play Audrey Hepburn In Breakfast At Tiffany’s Making-Of Movie

Lily Collins is set to play Audrey Hepburn in a film on the screen icon and the making of her 1961 classic Breakfast at Tiffany’s, which her Case Study Films is developing alongside Imagine Entertainment and producer Scott LaStaiti.

With Dickinson‘s Alena Smith aboard to adapt, the film is based on Sam Wasson’s bestselling book Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and the Dawn of the Modern Woman, the first ever complete account of the making of the film. With a cast of characters including Truman Capote, Edith Head, director Blake Edwards, and, of course, Hepburn herself, Wasson immerses readers in the America of the late ’50s, when a not-so-virginal girl by the name of Holly Golightly raised eyebrows across the nation, changing fashion, film, and sex, forever.

One of the defining figures of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Hepburn won an Oscar for Roman Holiday and went on to star in additional classics like Sabrina and Funny Face before coming around to Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the romantic comedy directed by Blake Edwards for Paramount, based on Truman Capote’s novella, which cemented her as a global fashion and cultural icon. Her character, Holly Golightly, is a young New York socialite who becomes interested in a young man new to her apartment building, only for her past to threaten to come between the two. Nominated for five Oscars, with Hepburn competing for Best Actress, the film won two, in Score and Song, and entered the U.S. National Film Registry in 2012.

Brian Grazer, Jeb Brody and Justin Wilkes will produce the film on Hepburn for Imagine, with Marc Gilbar serving as executive producer and Joyce Choi overseeing development. Collins, Charlie McDowell and Alex Orlovsky will produce for Case Study Films alongside LaStaiti. Sam Wasson and Brandon Millan will executive produce for Felix Farmer Productions, with Michael Shamberg also exec producing.

Currently, Collins can be seen starring in Netflix’s hit romantic dramedy Emily in Paris, produced by Imagine Entertainment company Jax Media, which returned for its fifth season in December and has been renewed for a sixth. A Golden Globe and Emmy nominee, who produces that series, she also produced Netflix’s 2022 thriller Windfall, in which she starred opposite Jesse Plemons and Jason Segel, with EP credits on The Summer Book and Mubi’s recent award-winning indie Lurker. Collins launched Case Study with McDowell and Orlovsky in November 2022. Most recently, they announced an Amazon MGM feature adaptation of Polly Pocket, with Collins set to star and produce alongside Mattel and Hello Sunshine. She is repped by LBI Entertainment, CAA and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.

A writer, director, and showrunner, Smith is known for creating the Peabody Award-winning series Dickinson, starring Hailee Steinfeld as Emily Dickinson, for Apple TV+. An EP on FX’s upcoming limited series Cry Wolf, she is repped by WME and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.

Recent projects from Grazer and Howard’s Imagine Entertainment include the series adaptation of The ‘Burbs starring Keke Palmer and Jack Whitehall for NBC/Peacock, Luca Guadagnino’s psychological thriller After the Hunt starring Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edebiri, and Howard’s Galapagos-set Eden with Jude Law, Sydney Sweeney, Ana de Armas, Vanessa Kirby and Daniel Brühl. In film, their upcoming projects include David Leitch’s How to Rob a Bank starring Nicholas Hoult, Zoë Kravitz, Anna Sawai and Pete Davidson, Whalefall starring Austin Abrams and Josh Brolin, and The Mosquito Bowl directed by Peter Berg. In television, they have the upcoming Siegfried and Roy series Wild Things at Apple starring Jude Law and Andrew Garfield.