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‘The Man Who Definitely Didn’t Steal Hollywood’: Giancarlo Parretti To Speak About Tumultuous Days Running MGM In BBC & Fifth Season Feature Doc


A Giancarlo Parretti MGM Doc is in the works at the BBC, Fifth Season & Wonderhood Studios, which interviews the man behind the Hollywood scandal.

Filmed in LA, Rome, Melbourne, London and New York, the doc will speak to Hollywood directors, actors and writers involved, along with the man himself. A separate project, The Lion of Orvieto from comedy writer Michael O’Rourke and producer Niels Juul, was being shopped at the Venice Film Festival. Wonderhood Chief Creative Officer Samantha Anstiss added: “John Dower’s entertaining and intelligent feature documentary tells the story of an enigmatic former waiter who both beguiled and bewildered Hollywood.

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