Aubrey Plaza to Play Infamous Madam Heidi Fleiss

The ‘Agatha All Along’ actor is aboard to play Fleiss, who ran a high-end prostitution ring counting various powerful figures among its clientele.

(Left) Rio Vidal (Aubrey Plaza) in Marvel Television's 'Agatha All Along', exclusively on Disney+. Photo courtesy of Marvel Television. © 2024 Marvel. (Right) Heidi Fleiss in 'Heidi Fleiss: The Would-be Madam of Crystal'. Photo HBO.

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Aubrey Plaza is aboard biodrama ‘The Heidi Fleiss Story’.
She’ll play infamous “Hollywood Madam” Fleiss.
Leah Rachel is in the director’s chair.

While we’re used to seeing Aubrey Plaza deploy her deadpan style in out-and-out comedies, she’s long since proved she can handle blending both laugh-grabbing work and dramatic roles, sometimes in the same project.

She’s also been taking more control over her career, producing projects via her Evil Hag Productions company. The latest gig the ‘My Old Ass’ actor will star in and produce is an interesting one: Plaza, per Variety, will tackle controversial real-life figure Heidi Fleiss in a new movie.

The film, ‘The Heidi Fleiss Story’, would chart Fleiss’ dealings as the “Hollywood Madam” (more on her activities below, with Leah Rachel (Netflix’s ‘Chambers’) directing and co-writing alongside rising star Rachel Sennott (‘Saturday Night’ and Travis Jackson (‘Hemlock Grove’).

What was the story of Heidi Fleiss?

Heidi Fleiss in 'Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam'. Photo: InPictures.

Fleiss was busted in the early 1990s for what was said to be the world’s largest high-end prostitution ring one that implicated Hollywood, politicians and other power figures.

Rachel, Sennott and Jackson’s take on the story reportedly follows Fleiss before trial, scrambling around Los Angeles trying to blackmail and leverage various connections to get the case dropped, with the help of an aspiring young writer named Jaclyn.

The cameras should be rolling on this one in Los Angeles in the next few months, with Jessamine Burgum and Kara Durrett’s Pinky Promise production company providing the backing.

Where else can we see Aubrey Plaza?

Rio Vidal (Aubrey Plaza) in Marvel Television's 'Agatha All Along', exclusively on Disney+. Photo courtesy of Marvel Television. © 2024 Marvel.

Plaza was most recently seen in Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’. She also won acclaim for her role in Marvel’s ‘WandaVision’ spin-off series ‘Agatha All Along’.

Coming up, she has a role in Ethan Coen’s new mystery caper ‘Honey Don’t’ alongside Chris Evans and Margaret Qualley, as well as Warner Bros.’ family comedy ‘Animal Friends’ and Zach Woods’ directorial debut, ‘The Accompanist’.

When will ‘The Heidi Fleiss Story’ be on screens?

Given that this is very much an indie production, there’s no word yet on where it might land –– though given that several of the behind-the-scenes creative team have worked with Netflix in the past, we figure the streaming service might well be interested.

Yet unless a deal has already been struck (or is in progress), expect this one to hit festivals looking for distribution.