Amazon is moving into enterprise with Melania Trump. And Brett Ratner.

The studio has confirmed that its Prime Video has solely licensed an upcoming documentary movie on the previous and incoming first girl that shall be directed by Ratner. A studio spokesperson calls the movie “an unprecedented, behind-the-scenes look” on the first girl and third spouse of Donald Trump.

The movie will obtain each a theatrical and streaming launch and shall be participatory in each sense provided that Melania Trump will govt produce alongside New Component Media’s Fernando Sulichin. Filming started in December 2024, one month after former President Donald Trump gained a decisive victory to return to the White Home.

Amazon is planning a launch within the second half of 2025.

Maybe probably the most controversial factor of the brand new challenge entails Ratner, who hasn’t labored on main Hollywood productions since 2017, when the “Rush Hour” helmer was accused of sexual misconduct by six ladies in a Los Angeles Occasions expose. Warner Bros., the place he had a first-look deal, severed ties with him. (He denied the claims.) Individually, a former assistant at a significant expertise company accused him of rape in a Fb put up, which Ratner denied. (He sued the accuser for defamation, and each side ultimately dropped their claims.) On the time, he mentioned: “In gentle of the allegations being made, I’m selecting to personally step away from all Warner Bros.-related actions. I don’t need to have any attainable damaging affect to the studio till these private points are resolved.”

He additionally was deeply concerned in a sprawling intercourse scandal that led to Kevin Tsujihara stepping down from his CEO put up at Warner Bros. in 2019 In that case, textual content messages between Ratner and a younger, autistic actress named Charlotte Kirk revealed that she felt she had been “used because the icing on the cake on your finance take care of Warner Bros.” (Ratner was previously partnered with Trump’s Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in a $450 million slate financing deal between their RatPac-Dune Leisure and Warners.)

However buddies of Ratner have informed Selection that he noticed a pathway again by directing a documentary, which requires little capital. Sometimes, main studios like Amazon don’t get entangled in documentaries on the filming stage and as a substitute purchase a completed movie when it bows at a significant movie pageant.

It’s unclear how Ratner satisfied the primary girl to belief him together with her life story. Ratner directed the Common thriller “Tower Heist,” which used Trump Worldwide Lodge & Tower because the movie’s major location. The previous and future president visited the set at the very least as soon as. Ratner is alleged to have been dwelling a part of the time in his native Miami since he was rocked by scandal.

An Amazon spokesperson says: “Prime Video shall be sharing extra particulars on the challenge as filming progresses and launch plans are finalized. We’re excited to share this actually distinctive story with our tens of millions of shoppers around the globe.”