Amazon Prime Video has licensed a documentary about Melania Trump that might be directed by Rush Hour director Brett Ratner, experiences Variety. A Prime Video spokesperson informed the outlet that the film might be an “unprecedented, behind-the-scenes look” on the first woman.
The information comes after Amazon founder Jeff Bezos had dinner with Donald Trump, who was closely crucial of the corporate throughout his first time period. It additionally follows the choice by Bezos and Amazon to donate $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund, simply as different tech CEOs like Apple’s Tim Cook and OpenAI’s Sam Altman have accomplished. Prime Video can be set to livestream Trump’s inauguration.
The movie is the primary important Hollywood venture that Ratner has taken on since 2017, when a number of girls accused him of sexual misconduct and one other of rape, Variety notes. He denied the allegations however parted methods with Warner Bros.
Ratner has some notable ties to the Trumps, together with a former partnership with Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin. He additionally filmed 2011’s Tower Heist largely on-location at Trump International Hotel & Tower and has reportedly run in Mar-a-Lago social circles since his departure from Hollywood life.
Amazon’s Melania Trump documentary has already begun filming and the corporate plans to offer it theatrical and streaming releases beginning within the second half of this 12 months, Variety writes.
