Subject: [NEWS] David E. Kelly writing "Bonfire of the Vanities" series for Apple TV
'The Bonfire of the Vanities' series headed to Apple TV
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Maybe the third time is the charm. Writer/producer David E. Kelley
is adapting Tom Wolfe's "The Bonfire of the Vanities" novel into a
series for Apple TV, with "The Batman" director Matt Reeves.
David E. Kelley is still best known for "The Practice" and "Ally
McBeal" shows, but he's also the writer of Apple TV's "Presumed
Innocent" and "Margo's Got Money Troubles." Now according to
Deadline, he's dramatizing Tom Wolfe's famous 1987 novel of greed
and Wall Street money.
Not to spoil the story, but as excellent as it is, Wolfe's novel
feels as if it fades out rather than have a big finish, which has
made it difficult to successfully adapt. It was filmed in 1990,
with Tom Hanks starring and Brian DePalma directing from a
screenplay by Michael Cristofer, but that was a flop.
Amazon attempted to create a series from the novel in 2016, written
by Chuck Lorre, but it never entered production.
The story centers on Sherman McCoy, a bond trader for whom nothing
ever goes wrong - until he takes a wrong turn and drives into the
Bronx. The fact that one wrong turn unravels his life was later used
in the AppleInsider forums as an example of how bad Apple Maps was
at launch.
It's not been revealed how many episodes Apple's "The Bonfire of the
Vanities" will run for, but reportedly Kelley is writing them all.
They are also all to be directed by Matt Reeves, best known for
"The Batman."
Apple has not commented on the news and there is no indication yet
of when the series may start streaming.
Coincidentally, though, David E. Kelley's first series for Apple was
a dramatization of another 1987 novel, "Presumed Innocent" by Scott
Turow. Despite that originally being a single-season retelling of
the book, Apple subsequently commissioned a second run, based on an
entirely unrelated novel by Jo Murray.
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