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07.02.2023 - 21:19 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: HBO is developing a series adaptation of non-fiction book Empty Mansions, about a wealthy recluse.
The Warner Bros. Discovery-owned premium network is working on the project with The Ticket filmmaker Ido Fluk, Atonement and Darkest Hour director Joe Wright and The Mosquito Coast producer Fremantle.
The story follows an elderly, fabulously wealthy recluse Huguette Clark, who is hospitalized for a number of seemingly minor ailments and a series of events are set into motion regarding her fortune and an unsigned will.
Fluk will write and exec produce, Wright will direct the potential pilot and exec produce alongside Fremantle.
At the RTL-owned producer and distributor, the project comes from Dante Di Loreto, President of Scripted Programming in the U.S. Di Loreto, in fact, previously worked closely with Ryan Murphy, exec producing series including Glee and American Horror Story. Murphy had previously optioned the book back in 2014, a year after it was published.
Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune was written by Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr.
It started when Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, and he subsequently stumbled through a surprising portal into American history.
Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century with a twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance. At its heart is a reclusive heiress named Huguette Clark, a woman so secretive that, at the time of her death at age 104, no new photograph of her had been seen in decades. Though she owned palatial homes in
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