Logan Lerman Latest To Join Searchlight’s ‘Playmates’

EXCLUSIVE: Logan Lerman is another new addition to Searchlight’s Playmates, the film inspired by Lorraine Nicholson’s experiences growing up at the Playboy Mansion, sources tell Deadline.

Reps for the studio declined comment. We hear Lerman will play a character named Mr. Wick.

Nicholson’s feature directorial debut Playmates adapts her own original script — an L.A.-set coming-of-age story following 13-year-old know-it-all Elle (played by Indiana Elle), who considers the Playboy Mansion her second home. During her time at the Mansion, Elle meets Anna (Lily-Rose Depp), one of seven hopefuls vying to be Playmate of the Month. The two form an unlikely friendship and try to help each other get what the other wants most, a magazine cover and a boy.

Bill Pullman is playing Hugh Hefner, as previously announced, with Jessica Biel as a former Playboy Playmate who was one of his wives. Her character, we’re told, is fictionalized — not modeled off any of Hefner’s three real-life wives, specifically. Van Patten’s character is Jade.

Producers on Playmates include Alex Orlovsky and Duncan Montgomery of High Frequency Entertainment, as well as Depp. VP Production Richard Ruiz and CE Cornelia Burleigh are overseeing the project for the studio, reporting to Heads of Production and Development DanTram Nguyen and Katie Goodson-Thomas.

Most recently, Lerman has been seen in Season 5 of Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building, plus Sony Pictures Classics’ dark comedy Oh, Hi! opposite Molly Gordon. Upcoming, he’s set to star opposite Emily Bader in Netflix’s reboot of 13 Going on 30. He is repped by UTA and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.