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Return to films in "Party Monster"
HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - In his first film in eight years, Macaulay Culkin will star in "Party Monster," a darkly comic recounting of the sick, sad and true story of 1990s party promoter and convicted murderer Michael Alig.
Budgeted under $5 million, the Killer Films project also will star Seth Green ("Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me"), and will begin production in Gotham in mid-April.
Alig, a "club kid" and party promoter, rose to prominence in the early 1990s. At his peak, he had his own record label and magazine. He also was doing a lot of drugs and, as his addictions got worse, his party themes became darker and more twisted. He murdered his drug dealer by injecting him with Drano and threw him in the East River. The power he wielded on the club scene made him feel untouchable, so he didn't hesitate to boast of the murder. The press thought it was a publicity stunt until the body washed ashore.
Documentary veterans Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato will make their feature writing/directing debuts on the project. Their credits include "The Eyes of Tammy Faye," as well as an Alig documentary, also called "Party Monster."
Their script is based on the book "Disco Blood Bath," which was penned by fellow Alig club kid James St. James (to be played by Green).
"(Bailey and Barbato) have their fingers on a kind of zeitgeist that is kind of amazing, a pop culture sense that's like playing great music," Killer Films principal Christine Vachon told Daily Variety. "They started following Michael Alig before he was Michael Alig, when he was a busboy at Danceteria."
Killer, Bailey and Barbato have long wanted to produce the picture, but the subject matter made it a difficult sell.
"When our deal was at MGM, we tried to get them to make it," Vachon said. "It was almost like we had to wait for Macaulay to grow up." | Page: 1
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