‘Empty Mansions’ Series Adaptation In The Works At HBO From Ido Fluk, Joe Wright & Fremantle
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: 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.
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