Rid­ley Scott and Lady Gaga team up for Guc­ci mur­der thriller

At first glance, elder film­mak­ing states­man Rid­ley Scott and chameleon­ic pop sen­sa­tion Lady Gaga may seem an odd pair – but look clos­er. Over the course of their respec­tive careers, both have mount­ed dar­ing, vis­cer­al com­men­taries on the body’s frailty and the lim­its of its flesh. It’s just that for him, it was Alien, and for her, it was that dress made out of meat.

Any­how, these two cre­ative­ly kin­dred spir­its will indeed team up for a new film, as report­ed by Dead­line. He’s slat­ed to direct after he fin­ish­es The Last Duel, and for her grand return to act­ing after 2018’s remake of A Star Is Born, she’ll star in this retelling of Mau­r­izio Gucci’s assassination.

Mau­r­izio (a role that remains to-be-cast as of now), the grand­son of the leg­endary fash­ion house founder Guc­cio Guc­ci, was mur­dered on the steps of his own office in 1995 and his wife Patrizia Reg­giani was con­vict­ed of the crime.

She went to jail for 18 years before her release in 2016, though Scott’s co-pro­duc­er and wife Gian­ni­na has described the project as, ​“framed around the rise of a fam­i­ly busi­ness that den­i­grat­ed into squab­bles and greed,” at a time when Guc­ci stood to go ful­ly corporate.

Amer­i­ca clear­ly enjoys watch­ing Ital­ian fash­ion moguls get sent to an untime­ly grave, judg­ing by the suc­cess of the super­fi­cial­ly sim­i­lar The Assas­si­na­tion of Gian­ni Ver­sace: Amer­i­can Crime Sto­ry, which like­wise exam­ined the nasty, vora­cious con­sumerist id of the cou­ture world. But that show didn’t have Lady Gaga.

Whether the musi­cal lumi­nary will sing in her capac­i­ty as Patrizia has yet to be seen, but you don’t hire Lady Gaga for a part that some­body else could do. And if noth­ing else, this will pro­vide her with an ample num­ber of oppor­tu­ni­ties to bring up that she’s just an Ital­ian girl from New York.