Jolie, DiCaprio to slip into a pair of 'Guccis'? (VAR, HI)

By Nancy Tartaglione

Ridley Scott is talking to Angelina Jolie about a role in "Gucci," the director's drama about murder and decadence in the Gucci fashion dynasty. Media reports say Jolie would play Patrizia Reggiano, who was sentenced to 29 years in jail for plotting the murder of her ex-husband, Maurizio Gucci. Scott has approached Leonardo DiCaprio to play Maurizio, but he is not attached at this point.

Fox 2000, for which the project is a priority, is eyeing a 2010 start date. Scott Free and Giannina Facio are producing.

The studio is hiring a writer to work from Charles Randolf's current draft of the script which follows the drama that highlights the glamorous days of the Gucci family dynasty in the 70s and 80s. Infighting hobbled the clan until Maurizio, the grandson of founder Guccio Gucci, came out on top of a power struggle to run the family business.

In 1995, gearing up to reestablish the brand name via then-newcomer designer Tom Ford, Maurizio was gunned down in front of his Milan apartment.

Jolie is likely to next star in "The Tourist," the Spyglass thriller that has Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck in line to direct. Scott is in post-production with "Robin Hood" for Universal Pictures and Imagine.