Marianne Faithfull has reportedly signed off on plans to make a film about her life, using her 1994 autobiography Faithfull as the basis for a screenplay. "It won't happen right away," Faithfull says, "but we have found a director who I trust who wants to make a film of the book." Faithfull herself claims to have no interest in participating in the process beyond hoping the check clears. "I'm not getting involved. I'll read the script, when it's ready, which isn't for a long time, and then I'll leave it to the director and the actress he chooses. I don't want to have much to do with it. I want to read the script and like the script and then I'm going to let go of it and let them do what they want. That's the way to do it." Faithfull, who has acted in several films herself--she starred in the 1968 head trip Girl on a Motorcycle and more recently appeared in Patrice Chéreau's Intimacy (2001) and Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006), and was also typecast as God in a few episodes of the TV series Absolutely Fabulous--has expressed confidence that her life would make a good movie because it's "a great story." She is not wrong, and it's also easy to see why she's prefer to leave it to somebody else to live it again.

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