The hunt is on for an actress to play groundbreaking studio boss Sherry Lansing in a movie version of her recent biography, Page Six has exclusively learned.
Sources say Paramount and “Mission: Impossible” producer Paula Wagner are in early discussions to turn the Hollywood legend’s tome into a film. A source cautioned that the project’s not yet set up at Paramount, but, “They are trying to put it together” with an actress attached to play Lansing.
The book, “Leading Lady: Sherry Lansing and the Making of a Hollywood Groundbreaker,” was penned by Stephen Galloway and published in April by Crown Archetype.
Lansing was the first female president of a studio in 1980 at 20th Century Fox and became CEO at Paramount behind such films as “Forrest Gump,” “Saving Private Ryan” and “Fatal Attraction.”
Among the book’s bombshell revelations was a tale of tension between Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep that became so heated while filming “Kramer vs. Kramer,” Hoffman slapped Streep on the set and the icons never worked together again.
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