Polanski: A cursed life?

Roman PolanskiDirector Roman Polanski has led a less-than-charmed life.

His story is as convoluted and curious as one of his own thrillers, which makes the prospect of a forthcoming biopic on him sound pretty darned interesting.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ohio-born actor and filmmaker Damian Chapa is working on an unauthorized film about Polanski.

As a Jewish boy growing up in Poland, Polanski survived the Holocaust, but lost his mother to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Since 1978, he's been a fugitive from the U.S., living in France, following his guilty plea of having sex with a minor.

Sharon TateThe film is expected to cover those dark chapters, and the murder of Polanski's second wife, Sharon Tate, at the hands of the Manson family.

"It's a very intense story we're going to carefully base on court documents and public-domain records," Chapa told the Hollywood Reporter. "I've looked at the court documents of his (statutory rape) case, and they're so brash and in-your-face. What happened there has overshadowed his whole life yet also been swept under the carpet.