Biopic on Legendary Playwright Tennessee Williams Coming to the Big Screen

Deadline reports exclusively that Broad Green Pictures will base an upcoming film biopic on John Lahr's award-winning biography "Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage Of The Flesh." Williams' iconic works, which include A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie, Sweet Bird Of Youth, The Night Of The Iguana, The Rose Tattoo, have been staged throughout the history of Broadway.

Lahr's book takes an in-depth look at the playwright's life from childhood until his death at age 71. Lahr, son of actor Bert, was a theater critic at The New Yorker magazine for 21 years until his retirement in 2013. His biography on Williams received the National Book Critics Circle Award, The American Academy of Arts and Letters Award and the Lamda Award for best gay biography. In the UK, it was the recipient of the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theater Biography.

A writer and director for the project has not yet been named.

Among Williams' most recent plays to hit Broadway was 2013's The Glass Menagerie, starring multiple Tony and Emmy Award-winner Cherry Jones as Amanda Wingfield, film and stage star Zachary Quinto as Tom, two-time Tony-nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger as Laura, and Brian J. Smith as Jim, the Gentleman Caller.

The production was directed by John Tiffany and featured original music composed by Nico Muhly, and movement by longtime Tiffany collaborator Steven Hoggett.