Renée Zellweger preparing to play Beatrix Potter, in a biopic about the chlidren's author. Ewan McGregor is apparently in talks to play Norman, Potter's editor.
The pair have already starred together in 2003's Down with Love, and are set to take the leading roles in the Hollywood drama, which will be directed by Chris Noonan, who was beind Babe in 1995. Zellweger herself will be executive producer, and the script will be written by Richard Maltby Jr.
Miss Potter will tell the tale of one of Britain's best-loved children's writers, who was behind the Peter Rabbit books, and her struggle for independence as a woman living in Victorian England.
Shooting will start in March 2006. | 
