Ondi Timoner, whose Sundance winner We Live in Public has mysteriously not been picked up yet, will be heading in them same biopic territory that Steven Shainberg went with Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus. For the record, Picturehouse Films screwed up the release of that picture, and I imagine Timoner will go a more conventional route to tell the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe’s story.
Shepherding The Perfect Moment is actress Eliza Dushku (who until this announcement was only an indie B-film actress with a filmography that I didn’t much care for). Variety reports that Dushku has secured the exclusive rights and the full co-operation from Mapplethorpe’s estate. Timoner’s Interloper Films and Dushku’s Boston Diva Prods. are producing the pic.
This would chronicle Mapplethorpe’s career from his rise to fame in the 1970s for his portraits of socialites and rock stars until his death in 1989 at age 42 from complications arising from AIDS. I googled google images to see some quick reminders of his work – you should do the same. Here is one image.
