July 29th 2023.
An upcoming documentary about the late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and his artwork is in the works. According to Deadline, Boardwalk Pictures and Quinn Wilson, the former creative director for Lizzo, will produce the project titled King Pleasure, slated to start in late summer 2023.
Jordan Wynn, president of Boardwalk Studios, expressed his enthusiasm for the project stating, “Jean-Michel Basquiat was one of the most electric artists of all time. He left behind a body of work that continues to inspire and capture the imagination of people from all walks of life.”
The Basquiat family is fully backing the project and giving full access to archival materials and original works of art. The documentary will feature a mix of never-before-seen footage from home movies, notebooks, photographs, animation and select interviews.
Recently, a show featuring his works, the Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure exhibition, was held in New York and Los Angeles, featuring over 200 pieces of his work. Basquiat’s sisters, Lisane Basquiat and Jeanine Heriveaux, and their stepmother, Nora Fitzpatrick, run the estate.
The sisters stated, “Jean-Michel understood that art lives on beyond generations and that after his death, his art would continue to reveal new layers of meaning to our shared human experience. We’re thrilled to recenter the legacy of the Jean-Michel we knew and loved dearly. We have no doubt the Boardwalk team and impeccably talented Quinn Wilson will reclaim his story with a beautiful, intimate, and powerful new documentary.”
Producing the documentary with Wilson and Ileen Gallagher are Wynn, Andrew Fried, and Dane Lillegard. Executive producers are Jeanine Heriveaux, Lisane Basquiat, Anthony Konigbagbe, Katherine Oliver, Lindsay Firestone, James Cunningham, and Emi Stewart.
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