MUMBAI: The Danish Girl, based on a novel by David Ebershoff novel will have Gwyneth Paltrow pitched opposite Nicole Kidman.

The film tells the story of Danish painter Einar Wegener, played by Kidman, who was the first man to undergo a sex change operation in 1931.
Paltrow will play Einar's wife Greta which was to be essayed by Charlize Theron earlier.

The film being produced by Kidman and her partner Per Saari with Gail Mutrux, Linda Reisman and Anne Harrison, is being directed by Sweden's Tomas Alfredson, who had earlier made child vampire movie Let The Right One In.