This past January it was revealed that Endeavor Content had acquired the rights to Michael Wolff’s bestselling book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, and now comes word that Jay Roach (Trumbo) has signed on to direct the project as a limited series.
Roach, who won an Emmy for HBO’s Game Change, a dramatization of the 2008 Presidential Election, had previously been attached to another HBO miniseries which would have explored the 2016 election which saw Donald Trump achieving a stunning upset against rival candidate Hillary Clinton. However, the project was shelved when author Mark Halperin, whose book was being used as source material, was accused of sexual harrassment.
Wolff’s Fire and Fury details the inside story of the first year of Trump’s presidency, presenting the administration as chaotic and dysfunctional. It has already sold over 2 million copies in the United States alone. Wolff and Roach will serve as executive producers on the TV adaptation, along with former Channel 4 and BBC exec Michael Jackson, who is now CEO of Two Cities Television.
In addition to Fire and Fury, Roach is also attached to a feature adaptation of Howard Means’ book 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence, a drama exploring the fatal 1970 shootings at Kent State University.
Via THR
Originally published March 30, 2018. Updated March 29, 2018.
