Fremantle Takes Global On BBC Doc ‘My Life As Roger Moore’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Fremantle has taken global rights on the BBC‘s Roger Moore feature doc. My Life as Roger Moore gives an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the charismatic Bond star and will air on the BBC later this year.It takes viewers back to a golden age of cinema, tracing Moore’s unlikely rise from a young knitwear model to an era-defining icon, while showing how Moore refined his persona as a debonair, seasoned man-about-town, and finally won his breakthrough role as Bond.
Beyond Bond, the documentary explores Moore’s life as an A-List star, friends with the Sinatra family, as well as Tony Curtis, Elizabeth Taylor and countless other Hollywood legends.
Fremantle is also selling a BBC doc about Hollywood leading lady Taylor at MIPCOM this week, which is produced by Kim Kardashian.
Behind-the-scenes shows about actors have been performing well recently, with Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie and Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story both garnering good reviews.
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