EXCLUSIVE: Stranger Things star Matthew Modine is producing a documentary collection 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 Films.
The doc, which doesn’t but have a purchaser, will observe 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 is hailed for casting DiCaprio in This Boy’s Life within the early 90s reverse Robert De Niro. Only final month we revealed he’s helming Eternity from King Orba and Rachel Robinson-Zetzer.
The movie will embody interviews with Caton-Jones and large 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 Things, is acquainted with Caton-Jones’ oeuvre having starred in Memphis Belle as Captain Dennis Dearborn. He stated he’s “excited to have this opportunity to introduce Michael Caton-Jones’ body of work to a new audience while also reminding folks what a terrific filmmaker he is.”
Modine and Rackoff’s Cinco Dedos Peliculas was not too long ago behind Downwind, which chronicled the fallout from a long time 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 House Divided and The Last Musician of Auschwitz. Partickular Films’ credit embody Cows, Cash & Cover-Ups: Investigating VCJD.
Clements stated: “Not only is this film the story of how a young, working-class man became one of the most exacting directors in the business, it tells how Hollywood embraced this driven Scot. We are delighted to have secured so much unique and exclusive material with which to tell 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 latest credit embody the Roger Moore documentary From Roger With Love, are composing.