Aubrey Plaza is including a brand new venture to her slate: The actress/producer is ready to star as notorious ’90s Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss in biopic “The Heidi Fleiss Story,” IndieWire has confirmed.
Fleiss allegedly ran the “world’s largest high-end prostitution ring” that counted actors, politicians, and different main males amongst its shoppers. Rachel Sennott co-wrote the script with Rachel and Travis Jackson; “The Heidi Fleiss Story” might be “Chambers” creator Leah Rachel’s directorial debut. The critically acclaimed manufacturing firm Pinky Promise is behind the venture. Manufacturing will happen in Los Angeles this yr.
“The Heidi Fleiss Story” will heart on Fleiss’ tabloid reign proper earlier than her trial together with a meta part of her making an attempt to inform her facet of the story first. The synopsis reads: “In 1993 Los Angeles, a strong younger lady named Heidi Fleiss is arrested for operating the biggest high-end prostitution ring on the earth. With the unlikely assist of an aspiring author, Jaclyn, who vows to be the one to put in writing ‘The Heidi Fleiss Story,’ Heidi scrambles round LA making an attempt to blackmail and leverage numerous connections to get the case dropped.”
Plaza will produce via her Evil Hag Productions banner. Jessamine Burgum and Kara Durrett are producing for Pinky Promise.
Plaza is repped my MGMT, CAA and Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham.
Pinky Promise was based in 2020. The award-winning impartial manufacturing and financing firm produced Scarlett Johansson’s current directorial debut “Eleanor The Nice” (in theaters September 26 from Sony Classics and TriStar), in addition to “I Don’t Perceive You,” Andrea Arnold’s “Chicken,” and Golden Globe and SAG Award nominated “The Final Showgirl” starring Pamela Anderson and Jamie Lee Curtis. Pinky Promise is presently in manufacturing on Graham Parkes’ “Wishful Pondering” with Lewis Pullman and Maya Hawke.
Pinky Promise founder Burgum instructed IndieWire that working with first time filmmakers is a part of the banner’s mission to highlight rising expertise. When requested what recommendation she would give to aspiring administrators, Burgum stated, “There’s a script, there’s the manufacturing, after which there’s the submit. I’m not the primary individual to say this nor will I be the final, however I’ll at all times reinforce the reality of that assertion. […] There’s one thing to letting the film within the course of inform you what it’s. And necessity is the mom of invention. You have a look at the top product and it’s a results of all of the little issues that needed to go precisely proper with a purpose to find yourself with that factor. And [a] film is healthier for it.”
Information of the venture was first reported by Selection.
