Director Mary Harron

'American Psycho' Helmer Mary Harron To Direct 'The Anna Nicole Story'; Virginia Madsen & Martin Landau To Co-Star

How the mighty have fallen... There was a time when Mary Harron was looking like a rare and unique talent in the filmmaking world, particularly after coming off the one-two punch of " I Shot Andy Warhol " and "American Psycho." But it has been dimishing returns since then. She spend most of the aughts working in television, but delivered one feature, the potentially promising but ultimately undercooked "The Notorious Bettie Page." And last year her vampire flick " The Moth Diaries " dropped with a barely a sound. And now she's doing Lifetime schlock. The network who doesn't know a National Enquirer story they can't turn into a movie, are moving ahead with "The Anna Nicole Story." In case you've been living under a rock, Anna Nicole gained fame as a model for Playboy and Guess and quickly found her life becoming tabloid fodder after she married an elderly oil tycoon, several decades older than she was.
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