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Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Developing Female Kurdish Militia Drama for TV
The mother-daughter producing partners have, via their HiddenLight production company, optioned author Gayle Tzemach Lemmon s The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice for the small screen.
Hillary and Chelsea Clinton have set their sights on their first scripted TV series.
The duo, via their Hidden Light Productions banner, has acquired TV rights to best-selling author Gayle Tzemach Lemmon s
The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice. A network is not yet attached.
Set to be published Feb. 16 by Penguin Press,
Daughters of Kobani is based on hundreds of hours of interviews and on-the-ground reporting about the all-female Kurdish militia who took on ISIS in Northern Syria and won. Following the unlikely showdown emerged a fighting force who spread their own political vision and established gender equality in their corner of the Middle East and bey
Hillary and Chelsea Clinton are set to produce a TV show about defiant all-female Kurdish militia unit that helped to defeat ISIS in Syria, after buying the rights to new book about the women
Hillary and Chelsea launched production company HiddenLight Productions, which they founded with Richard Branson s son Sam, at the end of last year
Their first project was a documentary series for Apple TV+ entitled Gutsy Women - which was inspired by their own tome The Book of Gutsy Women
It was revealed on Monday that Hillary, 73, and Chelsea, 40, will make their first foray into scripted TV with an adaptation of The Daughters of Kobani
Hillary Rodham Clinton And Chelsea Clinton’s New Production Company Lands The Rights To Gayle Tzemach Lemmon’s ‘The Daughters of Kobani’; Will Be Developed As TV Series Deadline 1/25/2021
The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice.
Given Lemmon’s track record going with best-selling books being adapted into feature films, the bidding war was quite competitive with several bidders before HiddenLight emerged the victor. For the Clintons, the property feels like the perfect IP to help launch their banner given the subject matter and strong women that helped Lemmon write it.
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The Daughters of Kobani is an extraordinary account of brave, defiant women fighting for justice and equality,” Rodham Clinton said. “We created HiddenLight to celebrate heroes sung and unsung alike whose courage is too often overlooked, and we could not be more thrilled to bring this inspiring story to viewers around the world.”
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