Jennifer Salke
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Amazon has emerged the victor in one other large bidding warfare.
Following a aggressive course of, the Jennifer Salke-led streamer’s MGM Studios has gained the rights to adapt the Vainness Truthful story, “True Crime, True Religion: The Serial Killer and the Texas Mother Who Stopped Him,” which ran within the journal’s September concern. The Julie Miller-penned piece reveals the story behind the 1981 abduction of Margy Palm by serial killer Stephen Morin exterior a Texas Kmart. Although Morin by no means gained the popular culture notoriety of Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer, he was suspected of extra murders than both was convicted of.
As Miller’s story showcases, Palm, who in the end escaped, maintained a relationship together with her captor. In reality, after Morin’s arrest, he started calling, writing and even sending Palm Christmas playing cards from jail. In keeping with Miller, a friendship of kinds took maintain, with Palm visiting Morin behind bars roughly 15 occasions, even making the journey to see him on demise row shortly earlier than he was executed. As Palm tells Miller, she had been approached by any variety of brokers, authors and high-profile producers to adapt her story up to now, however she wasn’t able to share it in full, largely as a result of she had but to totally unpack the trauma till now.
The story, which printed on-line in early August, had been the topic of a serious bidding warfare in current months, with a number of A-list stars stated to be throwing their hats within the ring to supply. As one dealmaker put it a number of weeks again, the “complete city is salivating” over the IP and its potential. Sources inform The Hollywood Reporter {that a} celebrity-driven manufacturing firm is already in superior talks to board the TV adaption alongside Amazon’s MGM Studios.
Information of a collection adaption, ought to it transfer ahead, comes because the bigger IP market has grown more and more frothy amid Hollywood’s back-to-back strikes, which have grounded manufacturing to a halt and left the trade with little else to promote. Amazon has been an energetic participant, not too long ago successful a bidding warfare for rights to Shiny, the Marisa Meltzer best-seller concerning the millennium magnificence model and its feminine founder Emily Weiss, as nicely. Per a number of sources, Pet Sematary’s Lindsey Anderson Beer and her manufacturing firm LAB Brew are hooked up to supply what’s anticipated to be an ongoing collection on the streaming service. Amazon, sources say, additionally froze documentary rights for the story.
