Georgina Beyer is grateful she was not seduced by money. Photo / Anthony Phelps
Georgina Beyer is grateful she was not seduced by money. Photo / Anthony Phelps
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Hollywood might be calling, but Georgina Beyer's tale is no longer for sale.
The world's first transsexual MP got a call in 2005 from Australian-based producers Sally and Roger Simpson, wanting to put Ms Beyer's story on to the big screen, to which she agreed.
"I've had offerseven since these people have been doing it - from American cable networks wanting to make the telly-movie and all that sort of thing - but, thank God, this lot got me before I could be seduced by money."
However, Ms Beyer said, as it was her life, the real appeal was in the quality of the movie. The film, with the working-title Girl, would be somewhat of a transtasman project, Ms Beyer said.
Although Australian-commissioned, filming would be in New Zealand and Australia-based New Zealander Jessica Hobbs was set to direct.
The film's producers have kept Ms Beyer involved in the project.
"I've had input into the drafts, and I've been able to say things like, 'yes, you've got the skeleton of the story, the most sensational and obvious parts'.
"Then I'd say sorts of things like 'but I don't think anyone's going to learn anything more about me, or anything they haven't already seen or heard', and so they go away and think 'we want more of this or that'." Ms Beyer said she would be getting, what the writers hope would be, the final draft in the next month or so.
Ms Beyer was also offered a cameo role in the movie, but turned down the chance to play her grandmother.
"I don't feel compelled to appear in it at all. I mean it's about me so what more do I want."
After the international success of the documentary on Ms Beyer, Georgie Girl, there are high hopes for the success of the coming movie.
"My dream, if you like, is I would love to think it might be quality enough for it to hit Sundance, Cannes, those kinds of festivals."
