The Hollywood Reporter relayed that Sony Pictures Television's TriStar has optioned Shattered, the book by liberal journalists Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes about Hillary Clinton's unexpected and embarrassing loss to Donald Trump. The studio is thinking about a limited series for prestige cable or streaming services. TriStar is eyeing HBO, Showtime and Starz as well as Netflix, Amazon and Hulu.
Shattered will be produced by John Davis and John Fox's Davis Entertainment, and the duo's credits include NBC's drama The Blacklist. A writer has not been hired, but "the TV version would aim to frame the story as a Greek tragedy and answer what happened that led to her defeat."
Allen and Parnes wrote an adoring book about Hillary in 2014 called HRC, and then after Hillary lost, flipped their script in Shattered about what a disaster the Clinton camp was all along.
In a post on Medium, Christina Reynolds, a deputy communications director for Mrs. Clinton’s campaign, expressed dissatisfaction with the book’s message. “It’s hard to read a depiction of the campaign that paints a dedicated, cohesive team as mercenaries with questionable motives who lacked a loyalty to a candidate described as ‘imperial’ and removed from the campaign."
She also claimed the media was biased against them! "Fairly or not, the press was more negative than positive, which creates antsy volunteers and donors. There were Benghazi hearings and FBI investigations....For the last several months, thanks to the Russians, we had our daily machinations and offhand private grousing aired publicly as tens of thousands of hacked emails were splashed all over the front page."
The Shattered news comes two months after HBO announced it will again adapt a campaign book by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, an untitled book about Trump's shocking victory that is set to be published by Penguin Press in early 2018.
Their 2008 book Game Change was about all the contenders, but the HBO film concentrated only on cartooning Sarah Palin as an ignorant disaster that screams and throws her cellphone when Nicolle Wallace calls. HBO is teaming with liberal activist/director Jay Roach to adapt the forthcoming book.
“Outside of the Civil War, World War II and including 9/11, this might be the most cataclysmic event the country’s ever seen,” Mr. Halperin said when Trump's victory was apparent.
