Michael Wolff's 'Fire and Fury' to Become TV Series

[DesertRat]

Michael Wolff's controversial Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House is coming to television.

Endeavor Content — the financing and sales arm formed in October between sister companies William Morris Endeavor and IMG — has purchased film and television rights to the No. 1 best-selling book. The massive deal is said to be in the seven-figure range. Endeavor Content plans to adapt the book as a TV series. A network is not yet attached, as Endeavor will now begin shopping the project.

Wolff will executive produce the series, with veteran Channel 4 and BBC executive Michael Jackson — now CEO of indie producer Two Cities Television — also on board to produce.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/michael-wolffs-fire-fury-become-tv-series-1075346

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1. casting has already been done by SNL

so there is that.

[DesertRat]

2. Haha, yes!

[crazycatlady]

10. Yes

Trump-- Alec Baldwin
Spicer-- Melissa McCarthy
Ivanka-- Scarlett Johansen

[Scurrilous]

3. Heh!

[Cha]

4. Wow.. get it while it's hot

is right!

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To date, rights to the book have been sold in 32 countries. It is currently the best-selling book of any genre worldwide. (A Spanish-language edition is set for Feb. 28, with subsequent takes in Arabic, Albanian, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Japanese, French, German and other languages also planned.)

Fire and Fury comes to the small screen after HBO canceled a planned series based on the 2016 election in what was poised to be a Game Change sequel of sorts. The pay cabler scrapped the project after sexual harassment allegations emerged regarding source material co-author Mark Halperin, who was poised to pen the script alongside John Heilemann. That opened the door for a Trump tell-all, with demand high for Fire and Fury given Wolff’s cinematic writing and fly-on-the-wall detail

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*Mark Halperin.. who also called President Obama a d*** on msnbc. Who's the d*** now?

Mahalo, DesertR

[Nonhlanhla]

5. I thought it was based on a TV series

known as the Trump White House Reality Show.

[DesertRat]

6. I'll bet 45 will insist on playing himself

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7. Oh god, it is way too early for that.

If they gotta make it, I hope they do as good a job as the movie of the book Game Change.

[DesertRat]

9. I loved that movie

[Quixote1818]

8. Finally, a show about Trump will be popular. nt