Hugh Hefner is such a cultural icon, it's not enough to have two different documentaries (Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time, 1992, and Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist, Rebel, 2009) made about him: now Warner Brothers is gearing up to start production on Playboy, a biopic tracing Hefner's journey from a puritanical Midwestern upbringing to the vanguard of the sexual revolution.
If all this sounds vaguely familiar, that's because Playboy was stuck in "development Hell" at Universal Pictures for years before Warner Brothers resurrected the property, with director Brett Ratner and actors Robert Downey Jr. and Hugh Jackman all attached at one point or another.
So who's swooping in to make Playboy a reality? Hollywood producer Jerry Wientraub, the man behind the Ocean's Eleven franchise and The Karate Kid, who's been married to singer/actress Jane Morgan since 1965...and living with his girlfriend Susie Ekins since the early '90s. Sounds like these two legendary players have a lot in common.
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