As the awards and nominations continue to stack up, it is becoming increasingly clear that when director David O Russell and Jennifer Lawrence collaborate on a film, success invariably follows.
Now the pair, who worked together on Silver Linings Playbook and whose most recent film American Hustle has been nominated for 10 Oscars, are expected to join forces again on an as-yet-untitled biopic of Miracle Mop inventor Joy Mangano.
American website Deadline has reported that Russell is in early talks with Fox 2000 (a branch of 20th Century Fox) about telling the story of Mangano, a single mother-of-three who became one of America's most successful entrepreneurs when she invented the Miracle Mop, the first self-wringing mop.
Annie Mumolo, Oscar-nominated for her work with Kristen Wiig on the script of Bridesmaids, has written the script, while John Davis, John Fox and Ken Mok are producing.
If the invention of a self-wringing mop sounds like an unlikely subject for a Hollywood film, Mangano's story is actually a strangely affecting tale.
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13 Jan 2014After graduating from New York's Pace University in 1978, Mangano worked as a waitress and airline reservation manager while single-handedly raising her three children. In 1990, she invented the Miracle Mop and, after modest sales at trade shows, Mangano herself appeared on shopping channel QVC to market her product. Within 20 minutes, she had sold an astonishing 18,000 mops.
She went on to develop a series of other products including the Huggable Hanger and is now considered one of America's finest entrepreneurs after she sold her company, Ingenious Designs, to USA Networks in a multi million dollar deal. Annual sales of her products are still in excess of $150 million. In short, it is a classic rags-to-riches tale.
There is currently no date set for the start of production.
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