Nick Cassavetes is set to direct Keira Knightley in “The Beautiful and the Damned” for Film Department, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The film centers on Zelda Sayre and F. Scott Fitzgerald, two Jazz Age icons known for their extravagant lifestyle and turbulent marriage.

Says the trade, “Fitzgerald used their relationship as material for his novels, and Sayre -- who tried hard to find an artistic identity of her own and ended up being admitted to a sanitarium -- did the same.”

Cassavetes, whose credits include “The Notebook” and “Alpha Dog,” is directing a script by Hanna Weg.

Knightley can currently be seen in Saul Dibb’s period drama “The Duchess.” Future projects of hers include “King Lear” and “Last Night.”