Amazon Prime Video is creating a drama collection primarily based on the e book “Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty” by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe, Variety has discovered.
Patrick Macmanus, who beforehand created exhibits like “Dr. Death” at Peacock and “The Girl From Plainville” at Hulu, is adapting the e book for the display screen and can function an government producer by way of Littleton Road Productions. Cooper may also government produce the undertaking, as will Kelly Funke of Littleton Road. UCP and Amazon Studios will co-produce. Macmanus is at the moment below an total deal at UCP.
Per the official logline, the present is “an epic drama chronicling 4 hundred years of the rise and fall of considered one of America’s strongest dynasties. From the household’s humble beginnings in New Amsterdam, patriarch Cornelius ‘Commodore’ Vanderbilt weaponized crafty, cutthroat enterprise ways to amass unimaginable wealth resulting in energy struggles between heirs over management, salacious scandals and monetary destroy. That is, till Gloria, the final of the Vanderbilts, rises above her household’s sophisticated historical past, and private tragedy to pave her personal path as an artist and designer.”
Cooper, who’s at the moment an anchor at CNN and a correspondent for CBS’ “60 Minutes,” has written a number of books about his mom, Gloria Vanderbilt. She and he beforehand co-authored the e book “The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss” in 2017. The two additionally labored collectively on the HBO function documentary “Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper.”
Cooper is repped by UTA and Janklow & Nesbit Associates. Macmanus is repped by UTA, The Cartel and Hansen Jacobson Teller Hoberman.
