SHIRLEY MacLAINE has developed a script for a movie about the life of screen icon LOUISE BROOKS - and she wants to play the dancer in her latter years.

The actress reveals filmmaker Martin Scorsese is interested in directing the movie.

She tells WENN, "I've written a script with Kathleen Tynan and it was a pretty good script. Martin Scorsese is interested in doing it. He took an option on the script, so that might happen.

"I'd love to be part of the film - I'd love to play Brooks in her later years, when she was living an isolated, hermit-like existence in upstate New York."

MacLaine, who plays fashion designer Coco Chanel in an upcoming TV movie, also dreams of playing artist and feminist Georgia O'Keeffe in a film about her life.

She adds, "I'm not quite old enough yet to play her. Next year maybe.

"O'Keeffe was a contradiction. She stood as a feminist and a person who was independent of men, but it wasn't really true. I love playing that contradiction of somebody who is a great artist, who goes to live alone, who says that she doesn't want to be with a man, and her art becomes her lover."