Deneuve, Rowlands are choices for voices

November 03, 2006 Sony Pictures Classics will handle the North American release of the film, an adaptation of Iranian author Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel autobiographies "Persepolis" and "Persepolis 2." Deneuve will voice the lead character's mother (as she does in the French version), and Rowlands will voice the her grandmother in the true tale of a precocious girl growing up in Iran during the Islamic revolution. Films are producing, with Kathleen Kennedy of the Kennedy/Marshall Co. exec producing the co-production with France 3 Cinema.

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