The French production company that helped bring “The Queen” to the big screen is turning its attention to another British female icon*: Margaret Thatcher.

The film will focus on one of the former prime minister’s glories, the 1982 Falklands War against Argentina.

French-owned U.K.-based production and distribution company Pathe has joined forces with the BBC and independent producer Damian Jones to develop the project, which they said on Monday will offer “a revealing* and intimate* portrait” of “the iron lady.”

They have commissioned* Brian Fillis to develop a screenplay* based on an original concept devised by Fillis and Jones. No director has yet been attached and a Pathe spokesperson stressed that the project was in the very early stages of research and development. No budget* was announced.

The film will center on Thatcher’s battle to save her career in the 17 days before the Falklands War, which was triggered* when Argentina invaded the remote archipelago* in the southern Atlantic.

As the Royal Navy sailed to the Falklands to reclaim* the territory, Thatcher waged* her own war against the male colleagues who doubted her determination.

(SD-Agencies)