Andy Kaufman Feature Doc within the Works (Exclusive) – The Hollywood Reporter

Andy Kaufman, the Saturday Night Live and Taxi star who was portrayed by Jim Carrey in Milos Forman’s 1999 movie Man on the Moon, is getting the documentary remedy.

The Emmy-nominated Alex Braverman will direct the characteristic doc in regards to the late American entertainer, which has simply began manufacturing. Morgan Neville, who directed Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain, will produce via his Tremolo Productions banner.

Kaufman, who died in 1984 after a battle with most cancers, secured legendary comedy standing as a sensational comic and efficiency artist greatest recognized for enjoying Latka Gravas, an immigrant auto mechanic on the sitcom Taxi.

“No matter how many times I watch Andy Kaufman’s work, I feel like I’m seeing a magic trick for the very first time. I’m excited for our project to honor that. This is the film I’ve wanted to make my entire life,” director Braverman mentioned in an announcement. The movie’s producers have secured unique rights to key movies and far of Kaufman’s early work, alongside never-before-seen footage and audio recordings.

There’s additionally an unique cope with Kaufman’s key artistic companions, Lynn Margulies Osgood and writing companion Bob Zmuda, who will seem within the movie. Elara Pictures, the manufacturing firm led by Josh and Benny Safdie, will govt produce alongside Rick Rubin and Chuck Braverman, who produced Kaufman’s 1980 particular Andy Kaufman Plays Carnegie Hall, and Wavelength founder and CEO Jenifer Westphal.

Neville, whose earlier work contains the Oscar-winning 20 Feet From Stardom, cited the artistic workforce supporting the Kaufman doc. “Alex is an exciting director who has a vital take on the story, the Safdie Brothers are true originals just like Kaufman himself, and Chuck Braverman and Wavelength are incredible collaborators and champions for this film’s unique vision,” he mentioned in his personal assertion.

The doc marks Tremolo and Wavelength’s second partnership after working collectively on Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, which Neville directed. It additionally marks Neville and Rubin’s second mission collectively after the Showtime documentary sequence Shangri-La.

ICM Partners and WME Independent are representing the mission.

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