What Happened to Dev Patel’s Chippendales Movie From the Director of ‘Dumb Money’?

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What Happened to Dev Patel’s Chippendales Movie From the Director of ‘Dumb Money’?
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Between ‘I, Tonya,’ and ‘Pam & Tommy,’ Craig Gillespie is no stranger to adapting true stories. So what happened here?

Director Craig Gillespie has been in the film business for decades, but only in recent years has he seemingly stumbled onto his calling: lively retellings of “stranger than fiction” real-world stories. The kind of tales that grabbed the front pages of tabloids and newspapers alike seem to be up his alley. For years, Gillespie was a journeyman filmmaker with some acclaimed titles under his belt but was largely most well-known for being a go-to director for Disney movies.

What Was Craig Gillespie and Dev Patel’s Chippendales Movie Going To Look Like? In October 2020, Gillespie was announced as the director of a proposed movie covering the origins of the Chippendales dancers, with Patel already secure in his involvement. The project, which had a script by Craig Williams, had been worked on forever but was now finally far enough along in production to secure a director.

'Welcome to Chippendales' on Hulu Didn't Help Matters There are countless reasons Chippendales fell apart. One factor that likely didn’t play into things, though, was Disney being a distributor for the feature. Disney loves to protect its squeaky-clean image, but the company has, thus far, been open to depictions of sexuality in 20th Century Studios or Searchlight Pictures titles like Poor Things.

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