‘Waking Ned’ Director Kirk Jones Sets First TV Project: Vertigo Films’ Trump Golf Course Drama ‘You’ve Been Trumped’

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Hollywood writer and director Kirk Jones is to helm Vertigo Films’ buzzy upcoming drama series You’ve Been Trumped, marking his first foray into television drama.The Waking Ned, Nanny McPhee and What to Expect When You’re Expecting director will write and direct the four part series, which is based on Anthony Baxter’s award-winning 2011 documentary of the same name about the small Scottish community who stood up to Donald Trump and his golf course development.Jones has completed the scripts, which will likely employ the black humour and deep-rooted emotional sensibility of Baxter’s doc.Set on one of Europe’s most environmentally sensitive stretches of coast on Scotland’s Northeast coastline, the drama charts the unbelievable true story of what happens when everyday people take on one of the world’s most famous, divisive, and powerful families.

Deadline first revealed news of the project in November 2020.Before becoming President, multi-billionaire Trump decided to build a luxury golf course in the middle of a treasured Scottish nature reserve in Aberdeenshire, with the Scottish Government overturning its own environmental laws to give him the green light.

That forced the locals to pick up the fight to preserve their way of life and their homes.Told through the eyes of farmer Michael Forbes, his family, and a core group of residents, it will follow key figures at the heart of the story – from former SNP First Minister Alex Salmond and Councillor John Swinney to Guardian journalist Annie Baxter and the entire Trump family.“There was a reason why the worlds media was drawn to this story in 2006 and why there was such a determined effort to prevent Anthony Baxter’s excellent documentary of the same name, being released in