Exclusive: The life and death of Don Simpson, the producer behind American Gigolo, Flashdance, Beverly Hills Cop, and Top Gun, is the subject of a new podcast series from iHeartRadio.
Actor Malaya Rivera Drew will host 24-episode series The Don, which will be exec produced by recent Academy Award winner Will McCormack and Snatch producer David Harris Kline.
The series will investigate the bizarre circumstances surrounding Don’s fatal overdose and chronicles the sordid cast of drug dealers, Hollywood madams and crooked doctors who may have been complicit in his death.
The first six episodes will launch on May 11.
The anthology podcast will begin with Simpson’s early days fighting to break into the film industry through his rise as a blockbuster producer into the dark days after the failure of Days of Thunder and his struggles with drugs and alcohol.
When Simpson died in...
Actor Malaya Rivera Drew will host 24-episode series The Don, which will be exec produced by recent Academy Award winner Will McCormack and Snatch producer David Harris Kline.
The series will investigate the bizarre circumstances surrounding Don’s fatal overdose and chronicles the sordid cast of drug dealers, Hollywood madams and crooked doctors who may have been complicit in his death.
The first six episodes will launch on May 11.
The anthology podcast will begin with Simpson’s early days fighting to break into the film industry through his rise as a blockbuster producer into the dark days after the failure of Days of Thunder and his struggles with drugs and alcohol.
When Simpson died in...
- 5/7/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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