Before turning himself in to police on criminal charges Friday, sources say Harvey Weinstein had been hatching a plan to make a documentary on himself that would tell his side of the story.
Sources told Page Six that Weinstein was reaching out to industry sources to help him make the film, including one person whose medical bills he’d helped to pay years ago.
“He’s been trying to get a documentary done on himself,” said a film insider of Weinstein, who is out on $1 million bail and facing felony charges of rape and a criminal sex act against two women.
“He wanted to make a film he could control — he’d been calling people,” said the source.
But a rep for Weinstein told Page Six when reached for comment, “He isn’t interested in a documentary about his experience. Didn’t happen.”
The film source said that when Weinstein was pitching his planned doc, “he kept saying, ‘When this is over,’ ” referring to the scandal in which dozens of women, including movie stars Angelina Jolie, Ashley Judd and Gwyneth Paltrow, have accused him of sexual harassment and assault. He’s denied the claims.
The source said the doc concept was before Weinstein turned himself in to authorities on Friday morning.
His lawyer, Ben Brafman, told Page Six of the criminal case, he “intends to file a motion to dismiss the charges as being legally flawed and not supported by credible evidence.”
As far as any documentary, we hear that there have also been outside parties looking to pursue a film on the fallen mogul with his cooperation.
And like a scene straight out of “The Player,” one Hollywood exec mused to us when we asked about the viability of a potential project: “It could be like ‘Weiner’ meets ‘If I Did It.’ Of course, with his legal issues . . . this could go on forever. But someone could film him while he’s going through this.”