Brett Ratner to Make Directing Comeback with Milli Vanilli Biopic After Misconduct Allegations

Published:Dec 3, 202315:48
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Brett Ratner will return to the director's chair for an Untitled Milli Vanilli Challenge, a long-time ardour undertaking for the Rush Hour director. Deadline experiences that Ratner's RatPac Leisure has struck a take care of Millennium Media to develop the undertaking, which Ratner has been making an attempt to get off the bottom for no less than ten years. Gross sales have reportedly launched forward of the upcoming digital EFM. No official remark has but been given by Ratner or Millennium.

The Milli Vanilli life rights have been acquired from surviving band member Fab Morvan and the film will embody all the group's most well-known hits. That features "Girl You Know It's True," written by Kevin Liles; Liles can even function an govt producer for the film. Ratner can be directing utilizing a screenplay penned by Rush Hour 2 & 3 author Jeff Nathanson.RELATED: Courtney Love Claims She Stopped Performing After a Variety of #MeToo Moments

Brett Ratner, who helmed films the Rush Hour trilogy, Purple Dragon, and X-Males: The Final Stand, hasn't directed a characteristic since Hercules was launched in 2014. In 2017, the director was accused of sexual misconduct by at least seven ladies, together with actresses Olivia Munn and Natasha Henstridge. Warner Bros. responded by instantly severing all ties with Ratner, opting to not renew their profitable co-producing deal. Ratner denied the allegations in a press release launched on the time.

"In gentle of the allegations being made, I'm selecting to personally step away from all Warner Bros.- associated actions," Ratner stated. "I don't want to have any possible negative impact to the studio until these personal issues are resolved."

Since his Warner Bros. ousting, Ratner had been preserving a low profile. He quietly returned to filmmaking in 2019 as a producer on Georgetown, Christoph Waltz's crime drama starring Waltz, Vanessa Redgrave, and Annette Bening. Earlier this month, it was additionally reported that Ratner's studio RatPac Leisure had acquired the life story rights to WallStreetBets founders Jaime and Joel Rogozinski. WallStreetBets is the subreddit recognized for its function within the well-publicized GameStop inventory frenzy final month.

From Munich, Germany, Milli Vanilli was established in 1988 by music producer Frank Farian. Consisting of Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus, the duo in a short time discovered success once they entered the scene, promoting tens of millions of information in a number of quick years. In 1990, the pair received the Grammy Award for Greatest New Artist, making the group much more widespread with a future that appeared extremely shiny on the time.

After all, most of us will know that issues solely went south from there. When it was revealed that Morvan and Pilatus didn't really carry out the group's vocals and have been lip syncing throughout reside performances, their star energy crumbled quick. The 2 deliberate a comeback in 1998 with a brand new album with Morvan and Pilatus on lead vocals, however its launch was canceled when Pilatus was discovered lifeless of an unintentional overdose. Morvan would later launch his personal solo album, Love Revolution, in 2003.

No different particulars have but been revealed concerning the Milli Vanilli film, corresponding to attainable casting info or how quickly Ratner is planning to start out manufacturing. This information involves us from Deadline.



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