Playboy has placed its planned Hugh Hefner biopic on hold after sexual harassment allegations were leveled against the film’s director, Brett Ratner. The film had reportedly nabbed Jared Leto to play Hefner, but Leto has now distanced himself from the project, with his reps saying the actor was never officially attached.
Producing a film about famed Playboy founder and latter-day reality star Hefner has long been a dream-project for Ratner, who in 2007 had a biopic set up at Universal with Robert Downey Jr. set to star. Ratner once again got a chance to put his Hefner biopic in motion after the death of producer Jerry Weintraub, who had secured the rights ...
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