Keira Knightley is reportedly in talks to star in yet another period piece, this time for a movie that is based on the love story of Zelda Sayre and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

The movie which is titled The Beautiful and the Damned will be directed by Nick Cassavettes (The Notebook) and written by Hanna Weg.

Sayre and Fitzgerald became Jazz Age icons known for living large, soaring high and crashing hard. Although toasts of town in the 1920s, their courtship and marriage was festooned with jealousy and acrimony