Jean-Michel Basquiat Feature Doc In The Works From Boardwalk Pictures & Quinn Wilson
27.07.2023 - 19:01
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EXCLUSIVE: Jean-Michel Basquiat is set to be the subject of a new feature documentary, King Pleasure, from Val and Pepsi, Where’s My Jet? producer Boardwalk Pictures and Quinn Wilson, former creative director for Lizzo.
The estate of the legendary artist is on board the project and has granted full access to archival material and original works of art, allowing it to be a mash-up of never-before-seen home movies, notebooks, photographs, animation, and interviews.
Wilson, who has also worked with the likes of Dita Von Teese, King Princess, and Ziwe, will direct King Pleasure, which starts production this summer.
It is the latest Basquiat project in the works. Stephan James is attached to star and produce a scripted limited series about the artist with Boat Rocker Studios.
Basquiat, whose untitled painting of a black skull with red and yellow rivulets sold for over $110M in 2017, was in the news last year after the Orlando Museum of Art unveiled 25 paintings that were later found to be fake.
Basquiat started out in the graffiti scene in New York in the late ‘70s before becoming one of the youngest artists to ever exhibit at the Whitney Biennial in New York. He was well known for his friendship with Andy Warhol before his death from a heroin overdose in 1988.
Basquiat’s sisters, Lisane Basquiat and Jeanine Heriveaux, who run the estate with their stepmother, Nora Firtzpatrick, have spent years poring over their brother’s paintings, drawing, photographs, VHS movies, African sculpture collection, toys and memorabilia to curate an exhibition of his life and work. They recently curated the Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure exhibition, which featured over 200 of his pieces, in both New York and Los Angeles.
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