Isabella Rossellini , Emma Laird and Millicent Simmonds are set to star in “Vermillion,” a period piece set during the last days of the French Revolution to be directed by British director Jon Amiel. Based on the play by Joel Gross, “Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh,” which first played in New York in 2007, and is inspired by true events, “Vermillion” is set during the turbulence that preceded the French Revolution. Laird plays Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun ,  a daughter of the lower-middle classes who uses her skills as a portrait painter to hustle her way into the royal court of Versailles. She has an affair with the left-leaning, impoverished Count Alexis de Ligne, a handsome aristocrat who makes his living as a toy-boy for wealthy older women, to get a commission to paint the naive young Queen Marie Antoinette.…