Hollywood superstar Jodie Foster to direct new movie

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2005

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Hollywood darling Jodie Foster, a former child actress who made a stellar leap to success as an adult, is to direct and possibly star in a drama about US sugar barons, industry reports said.

Foster, 42, who first sprang to worldwide fame three decades ago as a child prostitute in "Taxi Driver," has signed on to direct the movie "Sugar Kings," being produced by Tribeca Films for Universal Pictures.

The movie, based on a Vanity Fair magazine article, tells the story of a young lawyer who takes on powerful American sugar barons who exploit immigrant sugar cane cutters, industry bible Daily Varity reported.

The Vanity Fair article focuses on Alfy and Pepe Fanjul, who owned a sugar-manufacturing empire in Florida and are hounded by an attorney...