“Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” could be adapted from a book to a TV series.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the rights to the controversial Michael Wolff exposé of the Trump White House has been purchased by Endeavor Content for TV and film. Endeavor Content was created in 2017 as talent agency WME and talent management company IMG combined its film financing and scripted TV sales operations into one banner.
THR reported that Endeavor Content will start shopping the TV series adaptation, as a network is not yet attached to the project.
"Fire and Fury" was written based on Wolff's access to the Trump White House, and includes details from over 18 months of conversations with Trump and senior staff members. Some claims in the book include that Trump didn't expect or want to win the 2016 election, he was upset that A-list celebrities didn't come to his inauguration, he couldn't get through a lesson on the U.S. Constitution and media mogul Rupert Murdoch called him an "idiot."
Related: 10 stunning claims about Trump White House from ‘Fire and Fury’
Other claims say Trump eats fast food out of fear of being poisoned, Trump’s daughter Ivanka has goals of running for president, and Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn was aware of potential conflicts of interest with Russian ties.
The claims in the book have been denied by White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who referred to the book as "complete fantasy and just full of tabloid gossip."
Interest in the book grew when news from the book was leaked, and authorized excerpts were published soon after. The publication of the book was moved from Jan. 9 to Jan. 5 as the White House attempted to stop its release, and within two days of sales, "Fire and Fury" debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list. THR reported that according to the book's publisher, Henry Holt, more than 1.4 million hardcover copies were ordered and 700,000 copies have been shipped to date.
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