| Company type | Film production |
|---|---|
| Founders | Alan Polsky Gabe Polsky |
| Headquarters | Los Angeles, California, United States |
Polsky Films is a film production company based in Los Angeles, California created by brothers Alan Polsky and Gabe Polsky. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans directed by Werner Herzog and starring Nicolas Cage was Polsky Films first film. They also own the rights to turn the novels Flowers for Algernon , Gun, with Occasional Music , and Butcher's Crossing by John Edward Williams into films and the rights to turn the lives of Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud into films.
They have announced a biopic on surf legend Dorian Paskowitz that will be co-produced with Sean Penn. [1] [2] Screenwriter Stephen Schiff was hired by Polsky Films to write the script on the film about Albert Einstein. [3]