EXCLUSIVE: Kim Kardashian‘s foray into movie and TV continues with one other high-profile sale, this one hitting near dwelling for the truth star and entrepreneur. After a aggressive bidding that went by means of the week, sources inform Deadline that Netflix has landed for growth Calabasas, a TV collection which Kardashian is government producing together with her American Horror Story co-star Emma Roberts, Fairly Little Liars creator I. Marlene King and Alexandra Milchan (Tár). Insiders say there have been two different gives from main consumers with Netflix placing within the profitable bid by week’s finish.
Calabasas is predicated on the e-book If You Lived Right here You’d Be Well-known By Now by Through Bleidner, with King set to jot down the variation and function showrunner.
Within the vein of The O.C. and Beverly Hills 90210, Calabasas follows Through, a 16-year-old sheltered Midwestern Catholic faculty woman whose world is turned the wrong way up when her household strikes and he or she’s compelled to switch to the quick world of Calabasas Excessive the place nothing is because it seems and the place everyone seems to be making an attempt to be another person. It’s a spot the place desires come true … however not with out issues and typically unexpected penalties.
Kardashian is government producing with King and her companion Lauren Wagner by way of Lengthy Lake Media, Belletrist Productions’ for Roberts, Karah Preiss and Matt Matruski in addition to Milchan, who had the rights to her e-book, by means of her Crescentline banner.
The challenge rapidly began coming collectively after King pitched to Milchan her collection concept and got here on as author/showrunner. WME, who reps Kardashian and King, teamed them up with Kardashian’s AHS co-star Roberts becoming a member of quickly after. The group started taking conferences with gives following quickly thereafter.
Kardashian and her household made the city of Calabasas a reputation recognized worldwide so her involvement elevated the package deal in a giant method. This marks her fourth high-profile challenge to promote for the reason that strike ended, with the earlier three being the options Fifth Wheel, which additionally went to Netflix together with her hooked up to star, and an untitled thriller to Amazon in addition to one other starring automobile, a authorized drama collection for Hulu, a collaboration with AHS co-creator/government producer Ryan Murphy.
This marks a reunion for Kardashian for Roberts, who not too long ago labored collectively on American Horror Story: Delicate, whose Half 2 is at present airing on FX. Roberts has additionally been constructing out her producing slate by means of Belletrist which incorporates the hit Hulu collection Inform Me Lies, renewed for a second season.
Revealed in 2021 by Flatiron Books whereas Bleidner was nonetheless in school, the gathering of tales If You Lived Right here You’d Be Well-known By Now marks her writing debut.
Along with growing and government producing Freeform hit Fairly Little Liars, King additionally wrote and government produced spinoffs Ravenswood and PLL: The Perfectionists. She is government producing PLL: Authentic Sin whose second season launches Might 8 on Max.
Milchan’s credit additionally embody Apple TV+’s Blackbird and The Crowded Room.
Kardashian is repped by WME. Roberts and Belletrist are repped by CAA, David Sweeney of Sweeney Leisure and JR McGinnis of Felker Tozzi Suddleson Abramson. King and Lengthy Lake Media are repped by WME, Yorn Levine and Leisure 360. Crescentline is repped by lawyer Gavin Smart. Bleidner is repped by Circle of Confusion, the BJ Robbins Literary Company, and lawyer Dale R. de la Torre of Jacobson Russell Saltz Nassim & de la Torre.
