Taylor Hackford is set to direct his wife Helen Mirren and Joe Pesci in the drama Love Ranch for Capitol Films. Hackford hasn’t worked with his wife since the two made White Nights back in 1985.
Inspired by the story of Joe and Sally Conforte, proprietors of the Mustang Ranch, the first legalized house of prostitution in Nevada, the pic is about a couple who opened the first legal brothel in Nevada and the violence that resulted when their relationship was tested by infidelity. Boxer Oscar Bonavena was gunned down at the ranch in 1976, suspected of having an affair with the madam Sally.
Mark Jacobson, whom I recently told you about because he wrote the “New York Magazine” piece that inspired American Gangster, penned the screenplay. The pic begins filming in late January in Albuquerque, N.M.
