It look like Playboy magnate Hugh Hefner could be trying to woo Juno and Jennifer’s Body screenwriter Diablo Cody to write the biopic that he and producer Biran Grzaer are planning. According to one of Hef’s Twitter posts, he’s been, “Meeting with Diablo Cody to talk about the Brian Grazer Playboy film”.
A Hefner biopic, which was once going to directed by Brett Ratner (he’s since dropped out), is in indeed in works, although work on it seems to have been going incredibly slowly, so this could be an effort to kickstart things with a screenwriter who could bring something fresh and interesting to the mix. As Cody is an ex-stripper, she may offer a far better understanding of both the life of Hef and the motivation of the Bunnies, than many other writers.
However that tweet tells us little about what Cody might be doing on the movie, as she could be starting a new version of the screenplay from scratch, tweeking the script or it could just be that Hef and Grazer are flirting with getting the Juno screenwriter involved. We’d love for her to be involved as it might ensure the film has something interesting to say, but we’ll have to wait for confirmation to see if it actually happens.