Floyd Mutrux | |
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| Born | (1941-06-25)June 25, 1941 (age 84) United States |
| Other names | Charles Floyd Mutrux |
| Occupations | Writer,film director, stage director, producer, screenwriter |
Floyd Mutrux (born June 25, 1941) is an Americanstage and film director, writer, producer, and screenwriter.
He began his work in Hollywood as an uncredited writer forTwo-Lane Blacktop (1971). His career continued withThe Christian Licorice Store (1971; writer/producer),Dusty and Sweets McGee (1971; writer, producer and director) andFreebie and the Bean (1974; story and executive producer). He wrote and directedAloha, Bobby and Rose (1975) andThe Hollywood Knights (1980). Mutrux also directedAmerican Hot Wax (1978). His later work includesDick Tracy (1990; executive producer),American Me (1992; writer/executive producer),Blood In Blood Out (1993; screenplay),There Goes My Baby (1994; writer/director) andMulholland Falls (1996; story).
Mutrux co-wrote the musical theater productionsMillion Dollar Quartet (2010),[1][2][3]Baby It's You! (2009).[4][5][6] andHeartbreak Hotel, which opened at the Broadway Playhouse in Chicago on June 30, 2018, and closed on September 9, 2018.[7] He and co-writerColin Escott were nominated for aTony Award forMillion Dollar Quartet.[1]
Mutrux studied in New York while working atSecond City, Chicago, and later attendedColumbia University.
Floyd Mutrux was previously married toGail Mutrux and later to Penny Long. He has a son, Ashley, with Long. He later married choreographer Brigitte Mutrux.
In July 2012,Cleopatra Records sued Mutrux and Mutrux's company, Northern Lights, Inc. in Los Angeles to recover money that Cleopatra had invested in several of Mutrux's productions, includingMillion Dollar Quartet, "Heartbreak Hotel,"Baby It's You!, and "The Boy from New York City." Cleopatra alleged that although Cleopatra had agreed to invest a certain amount in a joint venture with Mutrux in 2004, in the years following, Cleopatra's former CPA Joel Keyser (who was fired for embezzlement in 2012) had secretly funneled additional money to Mutrux over the years. Cleopatra sued Mutrux and his companies for various claims, including fraud, conversion, breach of contract, and rescission. Later in the litigation, it was established that the total amount paid to Mutrux amounted to approximately $830,000, and that Mutrux had used virtually all of the money for his personal expenses, unrelated to the musical productions. Trial was held in the Los Angeles Superior Court in December 2014, and on August 5, 2015, judgment was entered against Mutrux and his companies, on the rescission claim, in the amount of $965,851.47.
In March 2010, plaintiff Michael Drescher sued Mutrux and Mutrux's company, Northern Lights, Inc. for theft, conversion, and fraudulent misrepresentation with regard to $800,000 that Drescher had invested in 2007 and 2008 in the production ofBaby It's You!. Drescher filed the case in federal court in Wisconsin, but the case was later transferred to federal court in Los Angeles. The First Amended Complaint in that action contains allegations that although Drescher believed that the funds were to be used for the production, Mutrux "in fact diverted all of plaintiff's money, using it to pay his own personal expenses," and that Mutrux had refused to allow Drescher to audit the production and refused to account to Drescher.[8] The case later settled, although Drescher later claimed that the settlement was obtained through Mutrux's fraud, and appealed to the Ninth Circuit, which denied the appeal and refused to overturn the district court's enforcement of the settlement.[9]
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