Inferno Finally Snuffed?

In New York to promote her film The Giant Mechanical Man, actress Malin Ackerman has told the Hollywood Reporter she's doubtful that the film Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story will ever be made—primarily due, she says, to financing issues.

From everything I've read and heard about the Matthew Wilder project over the past few years, that's been my understanding as well. While the film generated incredible buzz with the high-profile actresses it attracted (Courtney Love, Anna Faris and, most shambolically, Lindsay Lohan), it wasn't able to generate  interest from the most important people of all. . . . investors.

The fact that the film Lovelace was in production at the same time couldn't have helped, even though it wouldn't necessarily have hurt. Competing films about Truman Capote came out at roughly the same time; Capote (2005) with Philip Seymour Hoffman was followed the next year by Infamous. More recently two films about Marilyn Monroe were scheduled: Michelle Williams's highly regarded My Week With Marilyn and Blonde with Naomi Watts, which is apparently still in production.

So it's still possible, but now increasingly unlikely that Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story will see the light of day (much less the inside of a soundstage). With even its proposed star ringing its death knell in public—for the second time this year—it looks like Inferno may have been snuffed for good.