IN LIKE HEFF Less than a week since his passing and Brett Ratner’s Hugh Hefner biopic is picking up steam, announcing yesterday the casting of Jared Leto as the Playboy creator. “Jared is an old friend,” Ratner told The Hollywood Reporter. “When he heard I got the rights to Hef’s story, he told me, ‘I want […]
Jared Leto to star as Hugh Hefner in biopic
Though Playboy founder Hugh Hefner only passed away a few days ago, a biopic is already in the works and an actor has been found. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Blade Runner 2049 and Suicide Squad’s Jared Leto will portray Hefner in a film directed by Brett Ratner. Ratner, who has been eyeing this film for a decade […]
Brett Ratner developing a Hugh Hefner biopic
The life of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner is heading to the big screen courtesy of Brett Ratner’s RatPac Entertainment, with Ratner spearheading development on a biopic which will “explore Hefner’s metamorphosis from a dreamer raised in a conservative Methodist household, to an icon of the sexual revolution” following the launch of Playboy magazine in 1953. […]
