Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Life To Become Romantic Comedy

If you're like us, you've probably often wondered what the life of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner would be like as seen through the eyes of the genius who directed all three of the critically-acclaimed Rush Hour movies.

And now you're going to get your chance. Hugh Hefner has approved a script to the movie of his life, and Playboy: The Movie is to hopefully go into production in the very near future. However, since Rush Hour director Brett Ratner is directing the Playboy movie, we can expect to see the moment when a young Hugh Hefner decides to create a new system-shaking magazine with a brave taboo-busting ideology recreated cinematically into a scene where Hugh Hefner runs into a gangster's lair, accidentally insults everyone and winds up in the middle of a hare-brained gang-fight that only his nimble Asian partner can rescue him from.

Biopics are ace. The whole world wants to have a biopic made of them, from famous singers to semi-famous singers who died wanking to poisoned Russian spies. Biopics are so common now that there's even a Missy Elliott biopic in the works, even though the only people who'd go and see that are the immediate family of Missy Elliott and parents who want to terrify their naughty children.

By and large, it's easy to do a good biopic of a musician - get a famous actor to do a passable impression, slap a few hits on the soundtrack and you're ready for the Oscars. But what about a biopic set around the world of publishing? Deadlines and inky fingers aren't that many people's idea of fun - unless you're making Citizen Kane, which we're told some people quite like. At the other end of the scale is The People Vs Larry Flynt, a movie set around the magazine business which largely failed because it forgot that nobody wants to see Courtney Love flashing her gargoyle boobies every three seconds.

So where will Playboy: The Movie, based around the life and times of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, fit into this Citizen Kane/The People Vs Larry Flynt hierarchy? Here's a clue - Playboy: The Movie is going to be directed by Brett Ratner. Yes, Brett Ratner from all three Rush Hour films and the least good X-Men film. We can hear the Oscars rolling in already. The Telegraph quotes Ratner on his love of porn Hugh Hefner:

"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 (constitutional) struggles to his first orgy to the stroke in the 1980s that almost killed him."

Hugh Hefner must realise what a risk he's taking by putting the definitive movie of his life in the hands of someone primarily famous for thinking up new ways to beat up Chris Tucker, but we beg one thing of Ratner and Hefner - please please keep the scene where Jessica Alba throws a temper tantrum at you as historically accurate as possible. Thanks.

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Hefner's Playboy Lifestyle To Become A Film - Telegraph