It looks like Tony Scott has lined up his next film after the Denzel Washington and Chris Pine starrer, Unstoppable, as Variety reports that he’s attached to a movie about The Chippendales. Well, technically it’s not about the famous male strippers themselves, as it’ll be a biopic of Steve Banerjee, the man responsible for creating the Chippendales in the 1980s.
It’s a rise-and-fall tale of greed, paranoia and excess, as Banerjee went from pumping gas to owning a high-end nightclub, in which the idea for The Chippendales was born. He then hired a choreographer to bring a bit more polish to the troupe and soon inginited a massive craze for male strippers, making him incredibly rich in the process, with Chippendales shows touring around the globe.
However while he was living the high-life he also become insanely competitive and paranoid, eventually hiring a hitman to kill his choreographer after negotiations went sour. Benerjee killed himself in his cell before he could be sentenced.
It’s one hell of a tale of sex and excess, and apparently Scott wants it to have a tone similar to True Romance. Lisa Schrager is writing the screenplay (she’s also written the upcoming Heidi Fleiss biopic, Pay the Girl), which will be adapted from a manuscript Rodney Sheldon. If the movie goes ahead, it’s difficult not to feel a Tony Scott directed Chippendales sequence would be quite a sensory experience, as he’s not exactly one to hold back.