![]() ![]() “I read the book while we were filming the first ‘Jackass’ movie,” says Tremaine. ![]() “He had an edge to him, a creative soul who used both the right and left sides of his brain.”Īfter briefly being picked up by Focus Features in 2015, Steve Kline, who heads up Kovac’s Eleven Seven Music Group as COO, helped bring A-list producers Julie and Rick Yorn into the fold, eventually joined by Erik Olsen (“The Book of Eli”) and “Jackass” director Jeff Tremaine, with Netflix then agreeing to come aboard. “Freston got what this movie could be,” says Kovac. Sumner Redstone’s abrupt firing of Freston as Viacom CEO in the fall of that year sent the movie into limbo, even as fans such as David Fincher kicked the tires on directing the project. ![]() “There’s no varnish in this movie, no whitewashing,” insists one of the film’s producers, longtime Motley Crue manager Allen Kovac, who helped steer the movie through a byzantine production process which began in 2006, when Tom Freston first optioned the book for MTV Films, with director Larry Charles (“Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Borat”) attached. ![]()
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