Fox Searchlight is in negotiations to buy a pitch package with David O. Russell directing a biopic about Russ Meyer, the maker of B-movies.
The pitch package also involves buying the rights to the book Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film. The book was penned by Jimmy McDonough and first published in 2005.
Here is a part of the book's synopsis:
In a career that spanned more than forty years, Meyer created a body of work that has influenced a legion of filmmakers, fashionistas, comic book artists, rock bands and even the occasional feminist.”
Meyer died in 2004 and made over twenty films since the 1950s. He wrote, directed, produced, financed and often distributed his own pics—and placed with beautiful big breasts women in central roles, during the height of the sexual revolution. Some of his flicks include Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Cherry, Harry & Raquel! Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, and Motor Psycho.
Fox Searchlight will acquire the project as a directing vehicle for David O. Russell who directed movies such as Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees, The Fighter, and Flirting with Disaster, and really has had one hell of a comeback year with Oscar nomination for Best Director for The Fighter. He has been gathering Meyer-project over the past six months.
The Russ Meyer biopic script will be written by Merrit Johnson a talented TVwriter of the award-winning HBO miniseries Temple Grandin and many episodes of their brilliant In Treatment. He also wrote the screenplay for Lovelace. Johnson has grown in favor as a screenwriter after serving as Russell's assistant on Three Kings.
We will report more news once Fox has successfully completed its acquisition.
Thumbs up if you're looking forward and watch the Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! trailer. [Source: Deadline]
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