Hugh Hefner’s Playboy lifestyle into a movie
At 81 years old Hugh Hefner is set to hit the big screen with his Playboy lifestyle. The film, which will be named Playboy, will be directed by Brett Ratner and it will be produced for Universal Pictures by Brian Grazer. Reports say that the Playboy founder, Hefner sold the rights to his story to Grazer several years ago and he approved the movie project last week.
Hef came from a puritanical upbringing and reinvented himself to be the godfather of the sexual revolution. He also used his magazine to advocate civil rights and free speech, and put James Brown on his show ‘Playboy After Dark’ when they didn’t put black performers on national television. He broke all kinds of taboos, especially in sexuality. I want to show it all, from the First Amendment struggles to his first orgy to the stroke in the 1980s that almost killed him.
- Ratner was quoted as saying by Daily Variety -