Netflix Lands Crisis PR Drama Starring Lizzy Caplan From Halley Feiffer & A24
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation with multiple bidders, a drama starring Lizzy Caplan as a crisis PR executive has landed at Netflix for development, Deadline has learned.
A rep for the streamer declined comment. As Deadline previously reported, the untitled project, from American Horror Story: Delicate showrunner Halley Feiffer, A24, Caplan’s Westborn banner, Marti Noxon‘s Tiny Pyro Productions and Vox Media Studios, hit the marketplace last month amid the ongoing Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni legal drama that has put crisis PR in the spotlight.
The timely project quickly drew five offers, including inquiries from Hulu, Netflix and Amazon. The potential series is based on the New York Magazine article “Get Me Risa Heller!” by Shawn McCreesh.
The article profiles crisis PR veteran Heller, who has worked with the likes of Jeff Zucker, Mario Batali, Anthony Weiner, Jared Kushner and Jeffrey Toobin.
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