Nico, the cult singer who brought Nordic hauteur to The Velvet Underground in the 1960s, will be getting a new biopic next year covering the final years of her life.
Andy Warhol infamously said that Nico 'became a fat junkie' and died after her time in the countercultural scene, but director Susanna Nicchiarelli’s Nico, 1988 will cover EW has called 'the real story', starring Danish actress Trine Dyrholm in the lead role.
The film will pick up in 1987 with Nico in a heroin haze during a solo European tour accompanied by her son Ari, whom she always claimed was the son of French actor Alain Delon, though Delon denied paternity.
Nico died in 1988 while on holidays in Ibiza with Ari. Dyrholm, an accomplished singer-songwriter herself, will perform Nico’s original songs from that period.
Nico, 1988 will begin filming in Italy in November, before moving location filming to Belgium and Germany.
