A Feature Documentary about Andy Kaufman is in the works

Andy Kaufman, the Saturday Night Live and Taxi star who was depicted by Jim Carrey in Milos Forman’s 1999 film Man on the Moon, is seeking the narrative treatment.
The Emmy-selected Alex Braverman will coordinate the element doc about the late American performer, which has recently begun creation. Morgan Neville, who coordinated Roadrunner.
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Kaufman, who passed on in 1984 after a fight with disease, got unbelievable parody status as an exciting entertainer and execution craftsman most popular for playing Latka Gravas, a worker technician on the sitcom Taxi.
“Regardless of how frequently I watch Andy Kaufman’s work, I feel like I’m seeing an enchanted stunt for the absolute first time.

I’m energized for our venture to respect that.
This is the movie I’ve needed to make as long as I can remember,” chief Braverman said in an articulation.
The film’s makers have tied down elite freedoms to key movies and a lot of Kaufman’s initial work, close by never-before-seen film and sound accounts.
There’s likewise an elite arrangement with Kaufman’s critical inventive accomplices, Lynn Margulies Osgood and composing accomplice Bob Zmuda, who will show up in the film. Elara Pictures, the creation organization drove by Josh and Benny Safdie, will chief produce close by Rick Rubin and Chuck Braverman, who delivered Kaufman’s 1980 unique Andy Kaufman Plays Carnegie Hall, and Wavelength organizer and CEO Jenifer Westphal.
Neville, whose previous work incorporates the Oscar-winning 20 Feet From Stardom, refered to the innovative group supporting the Kaufman doc.
“Alex is an astonishing chief who has a fundamental interpretation of the story, the Safdie Brothers are valid firsts very much like Kaufman himself, and Chuck Braverman and Wavelength are extraordinary partners and advocate for this film’s interesting vision,” he said in his own explanation.
The doc marks Tremolo and Wavelength’s second organization in the wake of cooperating on Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, which Neville coordinated.
It likewise stamps Neville and Rubin’s second venture together after the Showtime narrative series Shangri-La.
ICM Partners and WME Independent are addressing the task.