Aubrey Plaza is about to star in and produce The Heidi Fleiss Story, a biopic of “Hollywood madam” Heidi Fleiss from Pinky Promise, the manufacturing firm behind the Pamela Anderson drama The Final Showgirl, Deadline has confirmed.
The darkish comedy marks the directorial debut of Leah Rachel, the creator of Netflix sequence Chambers. Rachel Sennott, the actress identified for roles in titles like Shiva Child and Bottoms, who has her personal upcoming HBO sequence, penned the script with Rachel and Travis Jackson. Jessamine Burgum and Kara Durrett will produce for Pinky Promise, alongside Plaza for Evil Hag, with manufacturing to happen in Los Angeles this 12 months.
Fleiss turned identified within the Nineties for working a high-profile prostitution ring that catered to the wealthy and highly effective of Los Angeles, together with some in Hollywood. Her empire got here crashing down in 1993, when she was arrested and charged with a number of counts, together with pandering, and sentenced to jail. The movie tracks Fleiss within the tense days main as much as her trial, as she navigates Los Angeles, utilizing her internet of connections to attempt to manipulate and blackmail her method out of the fees, with the help of an bold younger author named Jaclyn.
Most just lately showing in Ethan Coen’s Honey Don’t and Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, following lauded turns in Sundance’s My Outdated Ass and The White Lotus Season 2, Plaza will subsequent be seen starring in Ethan Coen and Tricia Prepare dinner’s darkish comedy, Honey Don’’!, which premiered at Cannes and opens in theaters by way of Focus Options on August twenty second. She’ll even be seen in Legendary’s Animal Mates, out by way of Warner Brothers on Might 1, 2026, and stars reverse Susan Sarandon within the upcoming indie The Accompanist, marking the directorial debut of Zack Woods.
