Warner Bros Assumes Hugh Hefner Pic, Jerry Weintraub To Create

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is matching an legendary film subject by having an legendary producer. The studio has had over Playboy, a task about Playboy Magazine founder Hugh Hefner, with Jerry Weintraub overtaking the film as producer. The film came from at Universal with Imagine Entertainment, in which the studio attempted for quite some time to inform the storyline of methods Hefner developed from the puritanical upbringing being the godfather from the sexual revolution. Throughout that point, Hefner used playboy to champion civil privileges and freedom of expression, putting James Brown on his show Playboy At Night when nobody put black entertainers on national television. While Universal had filmmakers like Brett Ratner attached at some point and stars like Robert Downey Junior. and Hugh Jackman pointed out as possibles to experience Hef, the project languished. At Warner Bros, this marks a conference of a few old-style legendary men, Hefner and Weintraub. The Sea’s Eleven producer, who cut his teeth marketing Elvis, Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan, put their own colorful existence story in to the memoir After I Stop Speaking, You’ll Know I’m Dead: Helpful Tales from the Persuasive Guy. Cinemax switched it in to the Cinemax documentary His Way. Wentraub wouldn't disclose what a part of Hefner’s existence he'll cover, and that he refused that Harry Potter scribe Steve Kloves has been spoken to like a potential film writer, when i’ve heard may be the conversation happening at this time between your studio and also the scribe. Stay updated.