Chuck Darwin<p>The director and producer <br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/Brett" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Brett</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ratner" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ratner</span></a>, <br />-- forced out of Hollywood at the peak of the <a href="https://c.im/tags/MeToo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MeToo</span></a> movement, <br />-- will direct a documentary about First Lady <a href="https://c.im/tags/Melania" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Melania</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> for Amazon, the studio confirmed Sunday.</p><p>The move is both a warm embrace by the ecommerce giant for the incoming administration <br />and a dramatic return for Ratner, the director of X-Men: The Last Stand and the Rush Hour movies.</p><p>One person who spoke to Semafor said they’d been surprised that Ratner, who reportedly lives in Israel now, had recently been seen at Mar-a-Lago. <br />Last year, he and US President-elect Donald Trump were reportedly among the guests at the wedding of the son of businessman Al Malnik, who is close to Ratner.</p><p>Ratner’s Hollywood career stopped in 2019 <br />when an actress accused him in the Los Angeles Times of forcing himself on her sexually, <br />and other women described inappropriate conduct. <br />A different woman accused him of rape in a Facebook post, then retracted that allegation.<br /> Ratner denied all of the allegations, and he was never charged with misconduct</p><p><a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/01/05/2025/director-brett-ratner-back-from-metoo-will-direct-melania-trump-documentary" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">semafor.com/article/01/05/2025</span><span class="invisible">/director-brett-ratner-back-from-metoo-will-direct-melania-trump-documentary</span></a></p>