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Melania Trump is headed to the big screen.
Somewhat. Amazon Studios has licensed a documentary on the incoming first lady that promises an “unprecedented, behind-the-scenes look” at her life, it said in a statement to Fox News.
The documentary, scheduled to premiere in theaters and on streaming in the second half of 2025, is directed by Brett Ratner and executive produced by Trump and Fernando Sulichin. It began filming last month.
While any exclusive look into the former-turned-future first lady’s life would be highly sought after by any outlet, the choice to pick up the film is the latest in a series of public efforts by Jeff Bezos, Amazon, and several of his companies to warm up to President-elect Donald Trump and his family after years of feuding.
Amazon has already donated $1 million to the incoming president’s inauguration fund, and it announced it would stream his inauguration on Prime Video, another in-kind contribution worth $1 million. Bezos himself has also dined with Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk at Mar-a-Lago, the latest in a series of tech billionaires to do so.
The uniformity among Silicon Valley titans kissing Trump’s ring led to another Bezos-related controversy this weekend. The Washington Post, another Bezos company, killed a cartoon by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes that depicted Bezos and other tech billionaires bending their knees to Trump with bags of money. Telnaes later resigned from the paper, while opinions editor David Shipley said he killed the cartoon because it had published other pieces on the same subject.
The controversy came months after Bezos spiked the Post‘s endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris and ended the paper’s decades-long tradition of presidential endorsements. Bezos has reportedly sought to broaden the paper’s writers and readership to include more conservatives.
The film will also be the first project directed by Ratner, of Rush Hour and X-Men: The Last Stand fame, in 10 years. Ratner was accused by multiple women—including Olivia Munn and Natasha Hensridge—in 2017 of sexual misconduct, leading Warner Bros. to sever all ties with him.
Ratner attempted a directorial comeback in 2021 with a biopic on pop duo Milli Vanilli, but after complaints by the Time’s Up organization over Ratner’s refusal to apologize for the accusations, the project was dropped.
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