Oscar-winner Sofia Coppola (Lost In Translation) will work again with her Virgin Suicides star Kirsten Dunst on a movie she will write, direct and co-produce on the ill-fated French queen Marie Antoinette. (No, she never said ' if they don't have bread, let them eat cake.')

Marie Antoinette is said to be a stylised version of the story of the French queen, who was guillotined in 1793.

Coppola's cousin Jason Schwartzman, who starred in Wes Anderson's Rushmore, will play Marie Antoinette's husband, Louis XVI

The film will begin production in France in February.

Coppola told Hollywood Reporter, 'I've always loved the story of Marie Antoinette and the decadence of Versailles on the brink of revolution.'

Dunst, Spider-Man 2's Mary-Jane Watson, will star next in Wimbledon with Paul Bettany (remember Russell Crowe's lanky roommate in A Beautiful Mind and the ship's doctor in Master and Commander?) and Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown.

Schwartzman will shortly begin shooting for Bewitched with Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell. Earlier, Coppola and he featured in Sofia's brother Roman's film, CQ.