The director and producer
#Brett #Ratner,
-- forced out of Hollywood at the peak of the #MeToo movement,
-- will direct a documentary about First Lady #Melania #Trump for Amazon, the studio confirmed Sunday.
The move is both a warm embrace by the ecommerce giant for the incoming administration
and a dramatic return for Ratner, the director of X-Men: The Last Stand and the Rush Hour movies.
One person who spoke to Semafor said they’d been surprised that Ratner, who reportedly lives in Israel now, had recently been seen at Mar-a-Lago.
Last year, he and US President-elect Donald Trump were reportedly among the guests at the wedding of the son of businessman Al Malnik, who is close to Ratner.
Ratner’s Hollywood career stopped in 2019
when an actress accused him in the Los Angeles Times of forcing himself on her sexually,
and other women described inappropriate conduct.
A different woman accused him of rape in a Facebook post, then retracted that allegation.
Ratner denied all of the allegations, and he was never charged with misconduct
