A new Playboy movie is in the works, and it’s unlike all the rest.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, Jack Nicholson’s daughter, Lorraine Nicholson, will make her feature directorial debut with Playmates. The coming-of-age drama is inspired by her frequent visits to the Playboy Mansion as a child during the 1990s.
Searchlight Pictures has already acquired the picture. The Nicholson-penned script centers on Elle, a thirteen-year-old know-it-all who considers the Playboy Mansion her second home, and who meets Anna, one of seven hopefuls vying to be Playmate of the Month. The two form an unlikely friendship and try to help each other get what the other wants most: a magazine cover and a boy.
Lily-Rose Depp (Nosferatu) and Indiana Elle (The Housemaid) will star in Playmate as Anna and Elle, respectively, while Bill Pullman (Independence Day) is on board to play Playboy founder Hugh Hefner.
Nicholson, whose mother was model Rebecca Broussard, previously wrote about her childhood at the Playboy Mansion for Vanity Fair in 2024. Here’s an excerpt:
“I never went to summer camp. I never had an after-school activity. From the year I was born, 1990, until I was about 11, I went to the Playboy Mansion, because that’s where my friends were. There were the kids—like curly-haired Taylor, whose parents actually met at the Midsummer Night’s Dream party. There were the girls—more Playmates past, present, and future—and of course, the men. Only half my friends there were actually children, but that didn’t matter. The adults who hung out at the Mansion, like Alison and Joel, liked to play too.”
Are you ready to see the Playboy Mansion through a new lens? What do you think about Pullman playing Hef?
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