Partickular Films and Two Rivers Media have announced that actor-producer Matthew Modine and production partner Adam Rackoff have boarded as executive producers of their documentary project Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy’s Life.
The pair join the project through their production company Cinco Dedos Peliculas.
A co-production between the two Scottish production companies, Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy’s Life explores Michael Caton-Jones’ rise from his humble roots in the working class mining village of Broxburn, near Edinburgh, to the dizzy heights of Hollywood, where he became one of Scotland’s most successful directors.
After studying at the UK’s National Film School, he went on to helm his first feature in the late Eighties. Scandal, about the Profumo-Keeler sex scandal, became an international hit and put Caton-Jones in high demand. His many hit films include features like Memphis Belle, Doc Hollywood, This Boy’s Life (in which he was instrumental in casting Leonardo DiCaprio in his first major film role), Rob Roy, The Jackal, Shooting Dogs, Our Ladies, and Basic Instinct 2.
The film will include interviews with Caton-Jones and those who worked with him throughout his career, including David Putnam, Tim Roth, Letitia Wright, Ron Perlman, Ewen Bremner, and David Hayman, as well as never-before-seen archive material from Caton-Jones’ 40-year career.
Alan Clements, managing director and executive producer, Two Rivers Media, says: “Not only is this film the story of how a young, working-class man became one of the most exacting directors in the business, it tells how Hollywood embraced this driven Scot. We are delighted to have secured so much unique and exclusive material with which to tell this inspiring story. It is also fantastic to be working with Matthew and Adam, whose collective experience will be a huge asset to this project.”
Cinco Dedos Peliculas is a film and new media production company co-founded by actor-producer Matthew Modine with producer and former Apple marketing executive Adam Rackoff. Modine and Rackoff have executive produced a number of award-winning films, documentaries, and animated features, while Modine has also starred in global hits including Stranger Things, Full Metal Jacket and The Dark Knight Rises.
Their recent documentary, Downwind, chronicles the fallout from decades of nuclear bomb testing on American soil and is narrated by Martin Sheen and features Michael Douglas, Lewis Black, and John Wayne’s son, Patrick.
Also on board are Emmy award-winning composers Roddy Hart and Tommy Reilly of Hart Reilly Music, whose recent credits include the Roger Moore documentary From Roger With Love.
“I’m excited to have this opportunity to introduce Michael Caton-Jones’ body of work to a new audience while also reminding folks what a terrific filmmaker he is,” said Modine, who played Captain Dennis Dearborn in Caton-Jones’ second feature, Memphis Belle.
“To this day, Rob Roy remains one of my favorite movies of the 1990s. The end sword fight might be the most realistic ever put to film,” added Modine’s producing partner, Adam Rackoff. “Michael Caton-Jones’ life and filmography deserve the documentary treatment and I’m thrilled to help bring Joseph McLean’s and Alan Clements’ vision to the screen.”
Joseph McLean, producer, Partickular Films, added: “This Broxburn Boy’s Life is a celebration of the talent and determination that led Michael from his home town to Hollywood. The calibre of talent we have onscreen is testament to Michael’s success story and the relationships he formed over the course of his career. We’re delighted to have Matthew and Adam onboard as executive producers and we’ve already discussed some exciting plans for filming in New York and LA.”
Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy’s Life is Executive Produced by Alan Clements (Special Forces: Most Daring Missions narrated by Tom Hardy, Dogs of War, Cassius X: Becoming Ali, Killing Escobar); and Directed and Produced by Joseph McLean (River City, Cows Cash & Coverups).
Pic: l-r – Michael Caton-Jones and Matthew Modine (Matthew Modine courtesy Netflix)
