Lindsay Lohan has already declared that her soon-to-be career-making performance in Inferno (The Linda Lovelace bio-pic) is “not a porno”. She said that just this week, in an interview with The Sun. Lindsay also claimed that Inferno would not be “vulgar… it’s not about the raw sex and the shots of her fully nude.” Which is weird, because everyone who has read the script thus far talks about how much sex there is, and how violent it is. Page Six already said the script would call on Lindsay to be “degraded and demoralized.” And now Jezebel got their hands on it, and there are even more details. Dog sex, abusive sex, lots of beatings, burnings, S&M sh-t, et cetera. Here’s what Jezebel had (full Jezebel piece here):
Lindsay Lohan has signed on to star in Matthew Wilder’s Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story, about the first porn star to earn mainstream recognition. We got our hands on the script, which is downright harrowing.
As you might expect, the story is full of sex and filthy language — but there’s also shocking violence. You’ll find child abuse, three orgasms, two beatings, intense humiliation and a bloody car crash — all in the first 32 pages alone.
The first disturbing scene involves a young Linda being smacked in the face by her mother, who also burns her daughter’s hand with a Bic lighter. This is page 10 —- in other words, within the first 10 minutes of the film.
But the real terrifying stuff happens between Linda and her husband/manager, Chuck Traynor, who humiliates her during a sexual encounter, making her say, “I’m stupid,” and “I’m a fat fatass” as he fingers her and brings her to orgasm.
[Jezebel then has a scan of one page of the script. The Linda character says stuff like “I’m ugly” and “I smell. I smell up the joint and nobody wants to come in.” Oh, and “I should sit in the backseat while you f-ck your girlfriends.”]
Just a few pages later, Chuck, wearing big Frye boots, kicks Linda until she is bruised all over, and then, to comfort her, kisses her bruises — then pushes hard down on the bruises as foreplay.
[Another scan – the script page has Linda being beaten and kicked while Chuck yells about being disrespected.]
From there, things just get worse: Chuck coerces Linda into turning tricks; her first encounter is in a seedy motel with five middle-aged businessmen. One fondles her breast while singing a tune from Mary Poppins. Later in the script, she gets a strange boob job, cooks naked and gets a violent spanking from Chuck. She cries — sobs — while making the legendary film Deep Throat, and has a foursome with Sammy Davis Jr. at Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion, where there’s also a crowd that urges her to have sex with a German Shepherd. (Linda and the dog, Fritz, do not actually engage in intercourse; Linda gets on all fours and waves her butt in the air and the pooch gets freaked out.)
The story is detailed, vivid and lurid, and some of the lines Lindsay Lohan will recite are a definite departure from her Disney career. For instance:
[More scans with lines for Linda like: “I was put on this earth for one thing and one thing only – sucking a footlong c-ck!” and “I love it when my man Chuck socks it to me in the ass.”]
But the truth is, the script is actually incredibly well-written. If handled properly, it could be a sex/drugs/violence retro classic, in the vein of Boogie Nights. The material is there. But questions remain: Does Lindsay Lohan have the talent to play a confused, controlled, emotionally and physically abused woman trying to claw her way to a normal life? Probably. Will she surprise everyone by turning in the performance of a lifetime? Maybe. Will she show up to the set? Unsure. On all counts, we’ll have to wait and see.
[From Jezebel]
Um, okay – if Jezebel is saying the script is well-written, I’ll buy that. But I just can’t see how any of it gets made (first of all) and if it does get made, how does it not get rated X or NC-17? For goodness sake, this sh-t is disturbing. I’m sitting here shivering. It’s one thing to read accounts like this – and this sh-t really did happen to Linda Lovelace, by the way – and it can seem cold and manageable on the page. But to actually see it acted out in a film? They wouldn’t even be able to do if they had a genuine star in the role. What studio wants to touch this?
One other piece of Lohan news – the judge ordered Lindsay to be deposed – AGAIN. Ha. Crackhead.
Posters for Inferno, courtesy of The Improper.
No surprise about the script. Maybe it will be filmed and go directly to DVD at the local porn shops.
She certainly needs a lot of tries to get deposed. It’s getting embarrassing, but it gives the tabloids something to talk about.
“I was put on this earth for one thing and one thing only – sucking a footlong c-ck!”, am I the only one who thinks Lindsay may have actually said this before?
I’m literally dumbfounded that her parents wouldn’t have her institutionalized before they’de allow her to make this movie. Stink like this will never wash off.
Dear Lord, keep any dogs away from that set!
I don’t fucking care how well-written it is (and for the record, I don’t believe it to be well-written at all), that movie will never be made. And if it is, I will never see it. I can’t imagine anyone who would except for sick fucks who want to see that kind of stuff.
Seriously, this Matthew Wilder guy probably reads the script to himself while having “private time” in the bathroom. I think he’s making this movie just so he can spank it to Lindsay Lohan doing all the gross acts in that script.
this sounds so hilarious, can you imagine this quack trying to act crazier than normal?
GatsbyGal, why would someone have to be sick to see it?
I’d be interested in seeing this movie because a small part of me really wants Lindsay Lohan to succeed, because it’s going to be hyped up to Hell and back and because I’d be interested in finding out their take on Linda Lovelace’s life.
…I’m not going to be masturbating furiously to it in the back.
very sad. this film just seems to glorify physical, sexual and mental abuse, written for rubberneckers and/or people who find abuse and degradation “stimulating”.
@GatsbyGal – i understand your frustration. the film seems to be written from a glorification aspect vs. an artfully sympathetic one.
if any of you have read the book “Ordeal” you’d see this is exactly from the book. And no, I didn’t get off while reading it. It’s horrific.
Ugh. Perhaps not every life story is big-screen material. Or small screen material. And no, I can’t imagine LL pulling this role off. Honestly, I don’t even know why she’d want to. Alas, if the film *is* made, I for one won’t be watching it. No interest in putting those kind of images onto my brain’s hard drive, LL or not.
I hope the movie gets made and finishes off what is left of this lunatics career.
What true actress wants to be associated with a project like this? Does she think that this film will get her respect and awards from the powers that be in Hollywood? I bet the whole town is laughing at this thing unfolding.
Let’s not forget folks, she tried to play a stripper in I Know Who Killed Me, and she was terrible. I can only imagine the over acting in this movie.
You can bet no name actors will be her co-stars.
@Wench – You can paint it up however you please, but at the end of the day, you’re paying money to watch an hour and a half of reenacted sexual abuse.
I think she’s hoping it will be some artistic masterpiece that restores her acting cred, but I also think this Wilder guy is exploiting her – he’s got a big name celeb who’s cracked out and desperate, agreeing to do this when no other legitimate actress would, and I guess he thinks this will bring him fame and fortune.
Personally, I think it sounds horrible and can’t imagine watching it. But I’m still doubting it’s ever going to be made.
@sarah: if by ‘sucking a footlong c-ck’ you mean ‘snorting a footlong line of coke’. i actually get the vibe that linds isn’t that interested in sex per se, just in being seeing as very sexy.
also, i suspect any movie that has dog-sex as even an off-screen point of reference is a least a *little* vulgar, just by definition.
Well….voyeuristically partaking in some of life’s most depraved experiences is not for everyone. While my stomach turns at the debasement that she suffered at the hands of others, shit happens and I don’t think that there is anything wrong with chronicaling it AS LONG AS IT’S A RESPECTFUL treatment and not indulgent. I think, however, that they will succumb to sensationalism….and that is what makes the adaptation potentially disgusting IMHO.
I wouldn’t and would never watch this. Just reading excerpts from the script disturb me to no end. I don’t know if this could be tastefully done and I definitely don’t think Lindsay Lohan has the capacity to play the role tastefully and come out of it mentally stable.
I wish things like this didn’t happen, I feel so much empathy for Linda and what she was put through, it’s sad that this happens daily to grown men, women and children and this movie…*sigh* I think it would be expolitive rather than artistic and I dont want the issue trivialised.
Uhm, I am a college-educated REAL woman who definitely hates violence normally, but this kind of story DOES need to be shared. too many men (that i have the dis-fortune of knowing) claim violence to women really isn’t as ‘bad’ as people say. young people need to see /read stories about what it’s like to get sucked into abusive degrading relationships. stories like these exist for us to learn from them. it is all too easy to slowly be sucked into violence with a man. I sadly know from personal experience.
Lindsay aside–this actually doesn’t sound like a bad movie, but should be handled EXTREMELY delicately.
Oh please. There is NO excuse, however creative it might be, for this movie to be made or for anyone to “be interested” in seeing it. Just the fact that they think any “normal” person would admit to watching simulated Lindsey/dog sex is insane. This is a sad, pitiful expose of a sad, pitiful life. I guess Hollywood has run out of other ways to shock us. Yuck.
Forget Lindsay playing the role,what is really sad is the actual woman who lived it.
without putting any brain power into it and with a splitting headache I can remember at least 3 previous attempts at making ths movie. and equally crack headed actresses signed on to do it (courntey love)
coming for 2014_ megan fox’s turn
Just a comment: Put a warning before reading the article.
I’m no prude but I thought it was a little mmm too strong for me 🙁
She’d better be channelling some Charlize Theron to pull this off to the proper effect. I think it could either be amazing or run-from-the-theater horrid. Not seeing much middle ground potential here.
this would be a very difficult role for any actress to pull off – for sure lohan can’t do it. her talent is minimal and at this point her personal life will overshadow any role she tries to take. she should get clean, take some acting classes and then try to come back with small roles in really good films. in any case i think this film will be a misogynistic mess.
I’ll definitly see it!! I mean my God, haven’t any of you ever seen an avant garde film. Don’t ever see Antichrist, Bad Lieutenant or The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, you’ll be put into a coma for sure!!!!!
@commenter 10:27 FINALLY..a voice of reason. I thank you. (there is hope 😉
No matter how they film it, it will be making a woman’s horrible abuse as entertainment, which is wrong. And the entertainment factor will also come into play with Lindsay Lohan as the Lovelace, which is also wrong. They KNOW that there will be some voyeuristic glee seeing Lohan being abused and debased as Lovelace. Also wrong. Someone on Jezebel yesterday had a really good comment about how wrong and unnecessary this film is. There’s no need for it…the only reason it would sell is if Lohan is in it, not for any artistic, or dramatic value. That’s how bad Lovelace’s life was. Ugh. It’s already been documented about how Lohan has extremely poor judgement. It sounds like she believed whatever Wilder told her and he’ll tell her anything to get her involved. He’s extremely slimy himself.
I find the discussion about this movie really strange. A lot of people seem to be acting like movies like this don’t get made all the time. Monica Belucci was in a movie that had one of the most brutal rape scenes of all time. There are tons and tons of movies that get made with these kinds of disturbing scenes, so I don’t understand where people get the idea that no studio will touch it. Stuff that is this violent and this hard to watch in terms of abuse get made quite frequently.
Someone else said earlier that this script will be fine if handled delicately, and I totally agree. Additionally, if Lohan wasn’t attached to this film, I can almost guarantee that the hoopla surrounding how degrading and violent it will be wouldn’t be nearly as loud.
This reminds me of Boogie Nights. I could have kicked myself afterwards for going & watching that movie. Some images you just cant get out of your head 🙁
As for Linda Lovelace’s story which by only reading her autobiography I was seriously disturbed. I’m going to have to agree with the person above who said not all life stories are meant to be put on film & I would say this would be one of them.
I don’t see the big deal about her doing graphic sex scenes if she even does them…What about Angelina, Juliette Binoche, Marissa Tomei and many others who will take off their clothes and grind on a guy because they’re “acting” and “the nudity was appropriate for the story.”
Chloe Sevigny…now there’s an actress I can respect!
@Gatsbygal I guess its only G-rated for you!
Maybe its because she has the cracked out mess rep that she will be more believable in this role. I have the feeling that if this is written really well, and edited really well, then they might be able to show the real tragedy behind the story, similar to Star 80 with Mariel Hemingway, about how that one Playboy model got killed by her husband.
@ Cara- Antichrist and Bad Lietenant were good films, with capable actors portraying the seedier sides of life, sex and mental anguish. You cannot compare those actors or their roles to Lindsay Lohan. Nor can you compare two films that haven’t even been made yet.
Chloe Sevigny?
The woman who performed real filatio on her bf/actor on camera? I beleive that’s called a sex tape. It’s not about the sex scenes people, in fact you’re missing the point. Her life was so tragic & very dark & this movie just wants to capitalize on this woman who had such a rough life. It just doesn’t seem right.
Many, many lives/life stories should not be put on screen, small or large. I offer you any “reality” show from MTV, VH1, et al; as well as most “biographical” movies.
Books allow a person to develop their own mental pictures, and bypass whatever parts they feel unable to handle. Movies force a few people’s perspectives on the viewer – viewers choose whether to subject themselves to that.
Personally, I haven’t watched a movie based on a book I’ve already read since I saw “Gone With the Wind” at age 13 – none of the characters fit my mental pictures of them, and I was terribly disappointed.
Do these types of roles ever benefit the careers of any actresses? I’m trying to think of one. Boogie Nights was mainly about Mark Wahlberg’s character, and no one was abusing him and making him get it on with a non-human (I can’t even write about that, but didn’t it actually happen in LL’s case? BLECH.) Chloe Sevigny didn’t benefit, I don’t think, from that scene with that a-hole Vincent Gallo. I’m really stumped thinking of an actress that benefited from a role where she’s really sexually debased. Beyond “just” rape, and don’t misinterpret the “just” part, please! Jodie Foster played a rape victim in The Accused, but she wasn’t tortured for years and made to act in porn. LL is no Jodie Foster.
In other words, there’s a difference between these edgy roles in the portrayal.
The closest role I can think of to this is the one Ned Beatty played in Deliverance, and still one can hear tacky, joking references to that rape scene, decades later.
doing this film could break her finally. the places she’ll have to go within herself to become linda…. why is she drawn to this project? she’s not strong enough to do this. history repeats itself.
@ kitten tail, Oh I’m sorry, I didn’t realize foreign films didn’t count, as I watched The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo this past Wed night, mi di spiace molto. However, don’t see it. You’ll want to gouge your eyes out all St. Lucia style for sure. (me, I’m not a wuss, I watched the film and LOVED it)
And LiLo just has a bad rep. Her actings just as good as Gainsbourg’s. Yes, I DID just say that.
I do not even want to read this article or the book so I will NOT be watching this movie. My stomach is already turning. No matter how truthful this stuff may be, does it really have to be made into a movie with Lohan no less?
Why popularize (which movies do even if they do not mean too) disgusting and degrating sex. Even if you do not get off, you know someone watching this will want to try it.
They are both “LL’s” hhmm…
To answer the comments about her parents – I think she’s old enough that she’s beyond their “allowing” and “disallowing” her behavior. They can’t control her decisions anymore.
Truthfully, I can see this being a decent cult-classic type film. Like Kaiser said, on page it’s cold and detached. But to be good it will require Lindsay to have the intuition to play it with a second, third, and fourth layer underneath that ridiculous “Lindsay Lohan biting her finger and looking offscreen as Linda Lovelace” poster. That’s not convincing – even for a photo.
And to truthful again – the sick part of me wants to see this mess. Which I imagine is many people’s reaction to the overhyping and publicity on this film. Perhaps that’s the plan?
“For goodness sake, this sh-t is disturbing. ”
totally Kaiser, totally.
I agree with others that the film already walks a fine like between a visceral biopic and an exploitive porno – and that the producers, directors, and *cough* TALENT are responsible for an accurate and intuitive (albeit chilling) portrayal of some very disturbing subject matter.
That being said, Lindsay can’t even take responsibility for a court-ordered piece of plastic around her ankle.
(Never mind the fact that a mean girl playing a Mean Girl isn’t exactly an emotive feat.)
Someone mentioned in a previous thread that Lindsay is exploiting Linda in the same way that Linda has been exploited all her life. I feel that observation is spot on. So the question is: How can a film with the potential to be a double dark indie drama ever succeed when the headliner is just as calculating and manipulative as Linda’s real-life handler?
Answer: It’s going to be an offensive, heavy-handed, exploitive porno.
(And the S&M community aside, the only one masturbating to this clusterf*ck will be Lindsay.)
I’m totally disgusted by what I read above. I read memoirs involving some f*cked up sh*t but I don’t think I could read this script let alone watch the movie. I just flashed back to reading “Push” (the novel based on the movie Precious) which has some really hard to read parts – I won’t go through that again w this movie/script. It’s just sensational – meant to push the envelope, nothing more. LL is more f’d up than I thought if she can act out this lady’s life in this film.
According to Lovelace’s Wikipedia entry, there have already been two attempts to make this film, the first with Courtney Love. Neither attempt ended up panning out, so hopefully this one won’t get made either.
Personally, I think the story is too horrific to be made into a movie for ANY reason, be it entertainment or education. Some things are better left untouched. Like deathbed photos.
OH BUT! I clicked on the deposition link, and there is some meat in that story – the poor girl that Lindsay drove around that night has an attorney like a shark – he’s not letting go, has rejected LL’s settlement offer to make it go away and says it will go to trial! That will make for great entertainment!
What does Linda Lovelace say about all this. Unless she’s dead…..then I wonder if she ever mentioned her life & wanting it to be a movie or not.
Linda Lovelace did indeed pass away a few years ago.
And I think her memory deserves better than a skeevy film-maker exploiting a desperate headcase. It smacks of the original story and we all know that it’ll have the sensitivity of a pneumatic drill in its direction.
i think the book was disturbing enough.
I don’t think this team of wilder and lohan will be able to sensitively treat this sad sad story.
i think this film is yet another case of Linda being exploitated for someone else’s gain.
I think Linda should be allowed to rest in peace and let her words, her book, be the only words on the matter.
On a topic other than Lindsey-I’m-not-long-for-this-world-Lohan and her trainwreck of a movie, why is it that the posts on this site all haver references to the poster? eg. “I’m sitting here shivering”, the comments about the posters own relationships, weight, children, etc., etc. You do realize that you’re not the celebrities here, and no one is really interested in your personal lives?
Just sayin’
#37, LL’s real last name was Marciano.
Honestly, the script doesn’t concern me as much as the star. Maybe, with a really good director it could be a critical success, if not a commercial one, but sorry, LL doesn’t have the acting chops for something so heavy. I caught Georgia Ruleon tv, where she plays a sexually abused teen, and she was terrible. She made the role seem trashy, which is what she’ll do with this.
You know what’s ironic, Linda’s daughter’s name is Lindsay. Read the IMDB, her bio said that she died from a car accident in 2002. What a horrible life she had.
Team Gatsbygal.
This is sick trash for nasty directors who just want to spank to degrading women, and showing them naked for no good reason.
In totally related news only 13 per cent of director’s guild is female, and most can never get a picture made in Hollywood.
Men are controlling female images and this is the crap we get.
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/movies/index.ssf/2010/03/oscar-winner_kathryn_bigelow_proves_female_directors_are_a_rare_breed_themselves.html
slightly off-topic.. the novel “Push” came BEFORE the movie “Precious.” The movie was based on the novel, not the other way around. I read the novel. Had nightmares. Will not see the movie.
I don’t know if I can stomach Linda’s book, and I know very well that i will NOT be seeing this movie. Some images I just don’t want in my mental files. I can’t get rid of them.
I appreciate, cause I found just what I was having a look for. You’ve ended my four day lengthy hunt! God Bless you man. Have a nice day. Bye