EXCLUSIVE: Stranger Issues star Matthew Modine is producing a documentary sequence about iconic Scottish director Michael Caton-Jones, the person credited with kickstarting Leonardo DiCaprio’s profession by casting him in This Boy’s Life.
Modine and Adam Rackoff’s Cinco Dedos Peliculas indie is EPing Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy’s Life with Scottish outfits Two Rivers Media and Partickular Movies.
The doc, which doesn’t but have a purchaser, will comply with the Scandal and Doc Hollywood director’s journey from the working class mining village of Broxburn, close to Edinburgh, to the dizzying heights of Hollywood. He’s hailed for casting DiCaprio in This Boy’s Life within the early 90s reverse Robert De Niro. Solely final month we revealed he’s helming Eternity from King Orba and Rachel Robinson-Zetzer.
The movie will embody interviews with Caton-Jones and massive names who labored with him all through his profession together with David Putnam, Tim Roth, Letitia Wright, Ron Perlman, Ewen Bremner and David Hayman, in addition to that includes archive materials from his 40-year profession.
Modine, who performs the terrifying Dr Martin Brenner AKA “Papa” in Stranger Issues, is acquainted with Caton-Jones’ oeuvre having starred in Memphis Belle as Captain Dennis Dearborn. He mentioned he’s “excited to have this chance to introduce Michael Caton-Jones’ physique of labor to a brand new viewers whereas additionally reminding of us what a terrific filmmaker he’s.”
Modine and Rackoff’s Cinco Dedos Peliculas was not too long ago behind Downwind, which chronicled the fallout from many years of nuclear bomb testing on American soil and was narrated by Martin Sheen. Run by Scottish business vet Alan Clements, Two Rivers has been behind the likes of Barbie Uncovered: A Dream Home Divided and The Final Musician of Auschwitz. Partickular Movies’ credit embody Cows, Money & Cowl-Ups: Investigating VCJD.
Clements mentioned: “Not solely is that this movie the story of how a younger, working-class man grew to become probably the most exacting administrators within the enterprise, it tells how Hollywood embraced this pushed Scot. We’re delighted to have secured a lot distinctive and unique materials with which to inform this inspiring story.”
Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy’s Life is EP’d by Clements and directed and produced by Partickular’s Joseph McLean. Emmy winners Roddy Hart and Tommy Reilly of Hart Reilly Music, whose current credit embody the Roger Moore documentary From Roger With Love, are composing.
