LOS ANGELES—Incoming First Girl Melania Trump would be the topic of a brand new documentary directed by Brett Ratner and distributed by Amazon Prime Video. The streaming arm of the tech big received unique licensing rights for a streaming and theatrical launch later this 12 months, the corporate stated Sunday.
Filming is already underway on the documentary. The corporate stated in an announcement that the movie will give viewers an “unprecedented behind-the-scenes look” at Melania Trump and likewise promised a “really distinctive story.”
The previous and now future first woman additionally launched a self-titled memoir late final 12 months. Her husband takes workplace on Jan. 20.
The movie is the most recent connection between Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump. The corporate in December introduced plans to donate $1 million to the President-elect’s inauguration fund, and stated that it will additionally stream Trump’s inauguration on its Prime Video service, a separate in-kind donation value one other $1 million.
The 2 males had been at odds previously. Throughout his first time period, Trump criticized Amazon and railed in opposition to the political protection at The Washington Put up, which Bezos owns. However he’s struck a extra conciliatory tone lately as Amazon and different tech firms search to enhance their relationship with the incoming president.
In December, Bezos expressed some pleasure about potential regulatory cutbacks within the coming years and stated he was “optimistic” about Trump’s second time period.
Bezos in October didn’t permit the Put up to endorse a presidential candidate, a transfer that led to tens of hundreds of individuals canceling their subscriptions and to protests from journalists with a deep historical past on the newspaper. This weekend, a cartoonist stop her job after an editor rejected her sketch of the newspaper’s proprietor and different media executives bowing earlier than the president-elect.
Fernando Sulichin, an Argentine filmmaker, is govt producing the movie, which started taking pictures in December.
Melania Trump has been an enigmatic determine since her husband introduced he was operating within the 2016 election. She had sought to take care of her privateness at the same time as she served as first woman, specializing in elevating their son, Barron, and selling her “Be Greatest” initiative to assist the “social, emotional, and bodily well being of youngsters.”
Whereas she appeared at her husband’s marketing campaign launch occasion for 2024 and attended the closing evening of the Republican Nationwide Conference this summer season, she has in any other case stayed off the marketing campaign path, although the calls for of once more being first woman might dictate a better public profile after Inauguration Day.