Film about Ibiza legend has ‘green-light’ and set to shoot next year

Film about Ibiza legend has ‘green-light’ and set to shoot next year

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In 2026, insiders claim the script is “brilliant,” and the film is being wildly popular.

The production of a Tony Pike-inspired film is set to start the following year. The script, which is described as “captivating,” was written by Irvine Welsh, who is currently casting Tamer Hassan as Pike.

Last week, producers received the order to begin scouting locations. Welsh once claimed that the Spanish party island was his “second home” and was a regular visitor to Pike’s Hotel. His script is brilliant, according to a source, and it really illuminates the island’s extraordinary cultural legacy. . It will be epic in length. “

The infamous hotel was run by the late Pike – once dubbed Ibiza’s version of playboy Hugh Hefner – and who claimed to have slept with more than 3,000 men and women. He is also said to have taken drugs with Freddie Mercury at the hotel, which was famously the setting for Wham’s Club Tropicana video. Celebrity guests at the hotel over the years included Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Grace Jones, Boy George, Nirvana singer-songwriter Kurt Cobain, and Kate Moss. Pike died of cancer aged 85.

Hassan stated earlier this year when he played Pike that he wanted me to play him in the movie of his life. Find your inner Pike, he said when I said I didn’t think I could. You are capable of doing this. In 2023, “Welsh” once praised Pike. Tony was a great raconteur, he said. He had a truly greater power than life.

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Source: Mirror

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