Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes has been lined up to adapt Gypsy into a movie.
The award-winning writer, who has also worked on Gosford Park and The Tourist and is now making miniseries Titanic, has been asked to transform the 1957 memoirs of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee into a feature-length film.
According to the BBC, Fellowes will work alongside producers Barbra Streisand and Joel Silver on the project.
Lee's memoirs explored her stripping career and her relationship with her pushy mother Momma Rose. She wrote the book after retiring from stripping in 1956 and died of lung cancer in 1970.
The autobiography was adapted into a Broadway musical in 1959 and then into a movie starring Natalie Wood and Rosalind Russell in 1962. It was nominated for three Academy Awards.
Bette Midler played Momma Rose and Cynthia Gibb played Gypsy in a 1993 TV adaptation of the book.
