While plot details are being kept under wraps, the film is understood not to be a biopic but instead charts a specific incident in the life of the celebrated dancer who defected from the Soviet Union to the West in 1961, despite KGB efforts to stop him.
        The volatile former Royal Ballet star, whose stage partners included Margot Fonteyn and Yvette Chauviré, died aged 53 after contracting HIV.
        Project details were confirmed to ScreenDaily by the production, which is looking to shoot in late 2016 and has secured rights to Julie Kavangh’s acclaimed biography of the dancer Nureyev: The Life, which was authorised by the Nureyev Foundation.