For the last 15 years, Bring It On and Dollhouse actress Eliza Dushku and her brother Nate Dushku have been trying to mount a biopic about controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
“It’s not the easiest thing to get an art film financed, we’re not a Marvel comic,” she told Deadline at our Tribeca studio.
In 2002, Eliza and Nate were introduced to the original script for Mapplethorpe by writer, Bruce Goodrich. In 2006, Goodrich optioned his screenplay to documentary filmmaker Ondi Timoner. The parties approached the Mapplethorpe Foundation in 2008 seeking backing and support for a film. A match was made marrying director Timoner and the Dushku siblings who funded the option from the Foundation for the right to tell the artist’s life story and reproduce his artwork for the film. In 2009, scribe Mikko Alanne joined the project to work on the script.
After her doc We Live in Public, Timoner was...
“It’s not the easiest thing to get an art film financed, we’re not a Marvel comic,” she told Deadline at our Tribeca studio.
In 2002, Eliza and Nate were introduced to the original script for Mapplethorpe by writer, Bruce Goodrich. In 2006, Goodrich optioned his screenplay to documentary filmmaker Ondi Timoner. The parties approached the Mapplethorpe Foundation in 2008 seeking backing and support for a film. A match was made marrying director Timoner and the Dushku siblings who funded the option from the Foundation for the right to tell the artist’s life story and reproduce his artwork for the film. In 2009, scribe Mikko Alanne joined the project to work on the script.
After her doc We Live in Public, Timoner was...
- 4/27/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Updated: Per Zosia Mamet’s team, the actress is no longer attached to this project due to scheduling conflicts. Our original story has been updated to reflect this new information.
The Robert Mapplethorpe biopic “Mapplethorpe” starring Matt Smith is heading into production in July, according to Interloper Films. An intimate portrait of one of the most controversial photographers in American history, the film stars Smith as Mapplethorpe.
Documentary filmmaker Ondi Timoner will direct the film, which she co-wrote with Bruce Goodrich. The movie follows Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989 due to complications from AIDS. Boston Diva Productions will produce alongside Timoner’s Interloper Films.
Timoner’s most recent feature documentary, 2015’s “Brand: A Second Coming,” focused on actor-comedian Russell Brand and his journey through addiction to...
The Robert Mapplethorpe biopic “Mapplethorpe” starring Matt Smith is heading into production in July, according to Interloper Films. An intimate portrait of one of the most controversial photographers in American history, the film stars Smith as Mapplethorpe.
Documentary filmmaker Ondi Timoner will direct the film, which she co-wrote with Bruce Goodrich. The movie follows Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989 due to complications from AIDS. Boston Diva Productions will produce alongside Timoner’s Interloper Films.
Timoner’s most recent feature documentary, 2015’s “Brand: A Second Coming,” focused on actor-comedian Russell Brand and his journey through addiction to...
- 5/31/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
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