Filmmaker Brett Ratner has signed a deal with Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment to direct a film about the life of Hugh Hefner, the founder of Playboy magazine.
Washington, June 25 : Filmmaker Brett Ratner has signed a deal with Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment to direct a film about the life of Hugh Hefner, the founder of 'Playboy' magazine.
The film bears the same name as the adult magazine, and it is being produced by Brian Grazer.
John Hoffman, who is well known for editing montage sequences for several Hollywood studio features, is writing its screenplay.
Eighty-one-year-old Hefner gave a green signal to the project during a meeting at the Playboy Mansion last week.
Ratner knows a lot about he Playboy's history, and he is waiting for a rewrite of the story. Hoffman has just begun penning the Hefner movie.
"Hef(ner) came from a puritanical upbringing and reinvented himself to be the godfather of the sexual revolution," Variety magazine quoted Ratner as telling Daily Variety.
"He also used his magazine to advocate civil rights and free speech, and put James Brown on his show 'Playboy After Dark' when they didn't put black performers on national television. He broke all kinds of taboos, especially in sexuality. I want to show it all, from the First Amendment struggles to his first orgy to the stroke in the 1980s that almost killed him," he added.
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