EXCLUSIVE: Hotel Mumbai director Anthony Maras is set to write and direct Peachtree, a ’70s true crime saga about the spectacular rise and fall of Atlanta porn king Mike Thevis. Maras is reun…
Thevis was born into a poor Greek immigrant family, and he who would go on to build the largest pornography network in America. A man of stark contradictions, by the 1970s Thevis commandeered a sprawling empire of smut from his base in the puritanical deep South, while simultaneously running a plethora of legitimate businesses with a nearly all female executive team.
“The more I learnt about this man and his world, the more obsessed I became,” Maras said. “Over the years my team and I unearthed thousands of pages of documents and dozens of eyewitness testimonies. We lodged FOI requests for government case files. We sifted through endless boxes of archives in Atlanta – it was just a treasure trove of riches for a storyteller.”Thomas and S’YA Concept signed on to fully fund development based on an expansive research dossier and treatment written by Maras.
Maras and Thomas will produce and Natalya Pavchinskaya will be executive producer under the S’YA Concept banner. Thomas separately is teamed with Thunder Road’s Basil Iwanyk in producing Oscar nominee Dev Patel’s directorial debutAnthony Maras is repped by Verve and Hirsch Wallerstein.
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