Following in the wave of auteur French filmmakers (Bonello, Dumont) gravitating towards the nontraditional biopic projects, it appears that Abdellatif Kechiche was at the development stages (handing up to five different drafts) with Wild Bunch’s Vincent Maraval on the person dubbed as the Ivory Girl, but apparently he might have cooled off to his own idea after the media storm that has brewed since attaining a celebrity status of his own with the Palme d’Or win and U.S media tour falling out for Blue is the Warmest Color. Kechiche thinks that this would make for a magnificent historical look at modern America and how both men and women in the industry ultimately changed society’s mentality.” One thing is for sure, the lead would not go to Léa Seydoux.
Gist: The 70’s set story traces the story of Marilyn Chambers, the wannabe actress who “mistakenly” got cast in Behind the Green Door and then posed for Ivory Soap, thus scandalizing the advertising industry and Procter & Gamble in the process.
Worth Noting: Chambers was also known as the “99 and 44/100% pure”.
Do We Care?: In our books, the filmmaker has struck gold twice (the other being The Secret of the Grain) and can do no wrong even if he charts into the tired porn heyday of the Boogie Nights/Lovelace kind.
