The Marquis will shoot in English and is being earmarked for a winter 2016-17 production start. Aja is adapting the screenplay inspired by Jean Teulé’s novel Le Montespan. The project, which the parties say is budgeted at $25m, will depict the ill-fated passion between de Montespan and his wife Athénaïs, a beautiful and ambitious woman who became the mistress of Louis XIV. The ...