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Nicholas Galitzine will portray Hoyt Richards, the world‑famous male supermodel, in a new Gus Van Sant movie. Richards, 64, rose to prominence modeling for houses including Versace, Ralph Lauren and Burberry and is the subject of HBO’s Bring Me the Beauties, which covers his involvement with a doomsday cult. Plot details for the Van Sant project haven’t been revealed.
Nicholas Galitzine will star as former top male supermodel Hoyt Richards in a new feature film with Gus Van Sant in talks to direct; details of the story are being kept under wraps, and Richards rose to fame in the late 1980s among models like Crawford and Campbell, fronting campaigns for major brands.
Nicholas Galitzine is set to portray fashion icon Hoyt Richards in an as-yet-untitled biopic with Gus Van Sant in talks to direct; Richards was a leading male model in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and details on the film’s attachments or title have not been disclosed.
Hoyt Richards, once the world’s top male model, was drawn into Frederick Von Mierers’s Eternal Values, a cult that fused extraterrestrial mythology with luxury fashion circles, gemstone scams, and a doomsday countdown. Richards was recruited as a teen, rose to global fame while secretly reporting to his cult leader, and endured manipulation and isolation until finally escaping with Fabio’s help in 1999. HBO’s Bring Me the Beauties documents the saga, while Richards now works as a counselor helping families extract loved ones from high-control groups.
An HBO three‑part doc dives into Hoyt Richards’ rise as the world’s top male model and his entanglement with Frederick Von Mierers’ Eternal Values, a doomsday cult that fused Arcturian alien walk‑ins, strict rules, sex‑ and drug‑fueled rites, and a lucrative wellness‑gem empire; it traces the cult’s ascent, coercive practices, a Vanity Fair exposé, and Richards’ eventual escape, through interviews and archival footage that expose the human cost behind the cult’s empire.