A biopic about legendary British designer, Alexander McQueen, is in the works.

According to Deadline Hollywood, who broke the news, the film will be directed by Andrew Haigh. Haigh's film, 45 Years, has been nominated for a best actress award at this year’s Oscars, for Charlotte Rampling’s role.

The film will be produced by Damian Jones (The Iron Lady) and the script will be penned by Playwright, Chris Urch – based on Andrew Wilson’s biography of the late designer, Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin.

The news comes after the astonishing success of the Savage Beauty exhibition – a retrospective of McQueen’s designs at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art that came to London’s Victoria and Albert Museum in 2015, attracting close to 500.000 visitors.

An Alexander McQueen film is in the pipeline