EXCLUSIVE: The murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich and the wild conspiracy theories it spawned is the subject of a limited series in development at Sony Pictures Television.
Titled #I Am Seth Rich, the series, inspired by Andy Kroll’s book A Death on W Street: The Murder of Seth Rich and the Age of Conspiracy, hails from Kroll and For Life and Without A Trace creator Hank Steinberg.
Sony Pictures Television, where Steinberg and his Channel Road Productions are under a deal, is the studio.Written by Steinberg, #I am Seth Rich chronicles the birth of the modern-day conspiracy movement that began following the 2016 murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich.
As the Rich family seeks justice for their son’s murder only to find his death being used to create a false counter-narrative that involved almost every aspect of the political machine, they become engulfed in this sprawling story which touches nearly every aspect of the modern misinformation era.
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