‘Billionaire Class’ Drama From Eric Haywood & Malcolm Spellman In Works At Fox

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EXCLUSIVE: Fox is developing Billionaire Class, a one-hour drama from writer Eric Haywood (Law & Order: Organized Crime, Manifest), Malcolm Spellman and Nichelle Tramble Spellman’s The 51 and Fox Entertainment.Written by Haywood, Billionaire Class is described as a high-stakes wish-fulfillment drama, offering a complex vision of wealth, race, and equity in America.

It focuses on a brilliant but disillusioned billionaire’s executive assistant (Jo), who teaches a charismatic, fast-talking street hustler (Miles) how to walk, talk, and act like a billionaire in order to con her employer’s super-wealthy friends into using their money to help the less fortunate.Haywood executive produces with Malcolm Spellman, Nichelle Tramble Spellman and Eli Dansky for The 51, Trevor Engelson via Underground, his frequent collaborator Douglas Banker for Five All In The Fifth as well as director Maurice “Mo” Marable (Woke).

Ray Smith co-produces. Fox Entertainment is the studio.The project reunites Haywood and Malcolm Spellman and brings them back to Fox where they worked together on hit Empire, Haywood as co-producer and Spellman as co-exec producer.

Haywood serves as co-executive producer on Law & Order: Organized Crime, which has been renewed for a third season premiering this fall.