Infamous “Hollywood madame” to the stars, Heidi Fleiss will be played by Aubrey Plaza in the upcoming biopic about her life in The Heidi Fleiss Story. Plaza is also acting as producer on the project that is being spearheaded by Pink Promise, the production company that produced last year’s The Last Showgirl, starring Pamela Anderson.
It seems like everyone is receiving the biopic treatment these days, especially if your complicated life touched Hollywood in some way. Be it Molly Bloom in Aaron Sorkin’s Molly’s Game, who ran a high-stakes poker game for Hollywood stars, or Netflix’s Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal, which starred Matthew Modine as the liaison for famous movie and television stars to help get their children into prestigious schools (reaching for this one). It’s simple, biopics work in Hollywood. Especially when they’re about Hollywood, or at least adjacent.
A Los Angeles native, Fleiss began managing a prostitution ring when she was 22 and by the time she was 25 was out on her own running her own prostitution business. It was only several years later that her empire came toppling down and Fleiss was arrested. The Heidi Fleiss Story is said to take place in these fraught days before the trial while Fleiss frantically uses her widespread set of connections to try and make one last play for freedom before the jailhouse doors close behind her.
The creator of the Netflix series Chambers, Leah Rachel, is pulling directorial duties for the film, marking her feature-length directorial debut. And actress Rachel Sennott (Bodies Bodies Bodies, Bottoms, Shiva Baby) wrote the script alongside Travis and Rachel Jackson. Evil Hag and Pinky Promise are set to produce the project, which is preparing to shoot in Los Angeles later this year.
Plaza has been busy since her early days in Parks and Recreation. Last year, she appeared in Francis Ford Coppola’s passion project, Megalopolis, and seemingly broke through the cultural zeitgeist with her performance in White Lotus season 2. Recently, she appeared in Ethan Coen’s sophomore feature film, Honey Don’t!.
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