JamesG
04-21-2009, 06:44 PM
Dushku Plans Mapplethorpe Biopic
21 April 2009 3:05 PM, PDT
Actress Eliza Dushku is stepping behind the camera to make a new movie about controversial late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
Dushku is teaming up with her brother Nate for the biopic of Mapplethorpe, who died of AIDS-related illnesses in 1989.
Mapplethorpe was famous for his gay and erotic photographs, as well as images of celebrities like Andy Warhol, Deborah Harry, Richard Gere, Peter Gabriel, Grace Jones and Patti Smith.
-IMDB News
*More recently, some of his work appeared in 2005's V for Vendetta in a scene where a homosexual television host has his photographs hanging in a secret room of his mansion.
21 April 2009 3:05 PM, PDT
Actress Eliza Dushku is stepping behind the camera to make a new movie about controversial late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
Dushku is teaming up with her brother Nate for the biopic of Mapplethorpe, who died of AIDS-related illnesses in 1989.
Mapplethorpe was famous for his gay and erotic photographs, as well as images of celebrities like Andy Warhol, Deborah Harry, Richard Gere, Peter Gabriel, Grace Jones and Patti Smith.
-IMDB News
*More recently, some of his work appeared in 2005's V for Vendetta in a scene where a homosexual television host has his photographs hanging in a secret room of his mansion.