Daily Variety reported on Monday that Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner's wild life is being turned into a feature film that will look at his social activism as well as his sexual exploits.
"Playboy – the movie” will be directed by Brett Ratner, the filmmaker behind the "Rush Hour" movies, and is being produced for Universal Pictures by Brian Grazer, who won the best picture Academy Award for "A Beautiful Mind."
Hefner, 81, who sold his life rights to Grazer several years ago, approved the duo's vision for the project last week.
The movie will show how Hefner founded Playboy in 1953, turning a $600 investment and a picture of Marilyn Monroe into one of the most successful publishing empires in history. He moved along the sexual revolution of the 1960s and used the pages of Playboy magazine to write lengthy articles that sparked fights on censorship while promoting various other libertarian causes.