After his upcoming
killer-clown horror flick 31, music and director Rob Zombie is stepping away
from genre filmmaking with biopic of sorts. Zombie and Cold Iron Pictures' Miranda
Bailey have acquired the rights to Steve Stoliar's memoir, Raised Eyebrows: My
Years Inside Groucho’s House, which recounts Stoliar's life as Groucho's
personal secretary and archivist during the last years of the comedian's life.
Besides working with
his idol, Stoliar also met "Groucho’s brothers Zeppo and Gummo, Mae West,
George Burns, Bob Hope, Jack Lemmon, S.J. Perelman, Steve Allen, and scores of
other luminaries of stage, screen, TV and literature."
Though not the most
obvious choice to direct a quasi biopic about the last years of Groucho Marx,
Zombie, who has spent more than a decade directing horror films, is a long time
fan of the iconic comedian.
"I have been a huge Groucho Marx fan ever since I
was a child and have read countless book on the comic legend, but after reading
the book Raised Eyebrows, a
totally new perspective on Groucho’s life emerged," says Zombie. "I
immediately saw this project as Groucho’s Sunset Boulevard and knew I had to bring it to
the big screen. It is a sad, funny and very dark tale of a one of Hollywood’s
greatest stars final years."
Oren Moverman (Love
& Mercy) is in charge of the adaptation, which doesn't yet have a release
date.
Source - Deadline
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