Lee Daniels To Evolve Valley from the Dolls Into Series For NBC, Chernin Entertainment

EXCLUSIVE: Jacqueline Susann’s classic 1966 novel Valley from the Dolls gets a set treatment by Oscar-nominated Precious director Lee Daniels. NBC has bought the time project, from twentieth century Fox TV and studio-based Chernin Entertainment, having a script commitment plus penalty. Daniels is placed to create and direct the variation in addition to executive produce with Chernin and Katherine Pope. UPDATE: This is just one of 3 recent drama sales for Chernin Entertainment, that also setup at Fox Gina Fattore’s Second Chances, in regards to a female trauma surgeon who needs to deal with the truth that she was the only survivor of the vehicle crash that wiped out her closest friend (the project received a script commitment plus penalty), and Jon Cowan’s legal thriller spec script Truth. Valley from the Dolls, that has offered a lot more than $ 30 million copies, spans over 2 decades to chronicle the lives, career levels and ultimate self-destruction of three female close friends: Anne Welles, who works in a Broadway talent agency Neely O’Hara, a vaudeville star and Jennifer North, a showgirl. The title from the book describes a slang for sleeping pills the three women eventually be determined by. The novel formerly was modified like a movie in 1967, like a small-series almost 30 years ago so that as a late-evening cleaning soap in 1994. This marks the broadcast debut of Daniels, who around the cable side was formerly mounted on an Cinemax multi-generational family compiled by Amy Blossom. Around the feature side, Daniels’ follow-as much as Precious, The Paper Boy — starring Nicole Kidman, Matthew McConaughey and Zac Efron — is going to be launched the coming year. You will find two period drama series that released this fall, ABC’s Pan Am, which got on a powerful start last evening, and also the Playboy Club, that was soft in the opener last Monday.