If there’s one person who is cinematically equipped to tell the bikini-clad story of Hugh Hefner, the man who founded Playboy, that person is undoubtedly Brett Ratner, Hollywood’s Hitchcock of subtlety and understatement. As we learned from his guest appearance on Entourage last season, Ratner is also a man who knows something about having a backyard full of bimbos just because he can. Though this project has not been without its challenges for Ratner, who presumably found it difficult to tell a story in which things do not blow up unnecessarily. According to ComingSoon:
Making a film of Hefner’s long life as icon of the sexual revolution has proven difficult, but Ratner and Hoffman found a way to do it that pleased Grazer and the 81-year-old Hefner, who approved the take late last week in a meeting at the Playboy Mansion.
Without his go-to tools of overblown violence and a fast-talking black guy, the Rush Hour director came to the realization that the only way to tell this story was with a whole lot of boobage. And while the reality of Hugh Hefner’s life was pretty boob-heavy to begin with, the Ratner-ality promises that every frame of film telling this monumentual story of man-dom will be filled with with more juggs than a Girls Gone Wild movie marathon. Ratner himself once said it best, “If there’s one thing that puts asses in seats, it’s explosions. But if there are two things, they’re probably titties.”
