Get set for Playboy - the movie
June 25, 2007 06:39pm
PLAYBOY magazine founder Hugh Hefner's wild life is being turned
into a feature film that will look at his social activism as well
as his sexual exploits, Daily Variety reported today.
Playboy, the movie, will be directed by Brett Ratner, the filmmaker
behind the Rush Hour movies, the trade paper said.
It is being produced for Universal Pictures by Brian Grazer, who
won the best picture Academy Award for A Beautiful Mind.
Hefner, 81, who sold his life rights to Grazer several years ago,
approved the duo's vision for the project last week, Daily Variety
said. The paper said a script is being written now.
"Hef came from a puritanical upbringing and reinvented himself to
be the godfather of the sexual revolution,'' Daily Variety quoted
Ratner as saying.
"He broke all kinds of taboos, especially in sexuality. I want to
show it all, from the First Amendment (guaranteeing free speech)
struggles to his first orgy to the stroke in the 1980s that almost
killed him.''
Hefner founded Playboy in 1953, turning a $US600 ($A710) investment
and a picture of Marilyn Monroe into one of the most successful
publishing empires in history.
He coaxed along the sexual revolution of the 1960s and used the
pages of his magazine to write lengthy articles fighting censorship
and promoting various other libertarian causes.
(source:
The Daily Telegraph)
