Peter Berg’s Film 44 To Produce Limited Series ‘Amity And Prosperity’ Based On Pulitzer-Winning Book
Peter Berg and Michael Lombardo’s Film 44 is set to produce a limited series based on Eliza Griswold’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America. Kristina Lauren Anderson, who is adapting Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist for TriStar and a screenplay based on Swan Lake for Universal, has been tapped to write.
The book, published last year, is an exposé on how fracking shattered the rural Pennsylvania town of Amity and how one lifelong resident, Stacey Haney, brought the story into the national spotlight. The paperback edition hits stands tomorrow.
Haney, a lifelong resident of Amity, was struggling to support her children when the fracking boom came to town. Like most of her neighbors, she saw the energy companies’ payments as a windfall. Soon trucks are rumbling down her unpaved road and a fenced-off fracking site rises on adjacent land. But her annoyance...
The book, published last year, is an exposé on how fracking shattered the rural Pennsylvania town of Amity and how one lifelong resident, Stacey Haney, brought the story into the national spotlight. The paperback edition hits stands tomorrow.
Haney, a lifelong resident of Amity, was struggling to support her children when the fracking boom came to town. Like most of her neighbors, she saw the energy companies’ payments as a windfall. Soon trucks are rumbling down her unpaved road and a fenced-off fracking site rises on adjacent land. But her annoyance...
- 6/3/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Peter Berg and Michael Lombardo's Film 44 shingle is adapting the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Amity & Prosperity as a limited series.
The nonfiction book by Eliza Griswold looks at the effects of fracking — a method of extracting natural gas from underground — on Amity, a small town in Pennsylvania, through the eyes of resident Stacey Haney, who helped bring national attention to what fracking did to her hometown.
Kristina Lauren Anderson (The Alienist) will write the script. No outlet is attached yet.
Haney, a lifelong resident of Amity, initially saw the fracking boom in and around the town, like ...
The nonfiction book by Eliza Griswold looks at the effects of fracking — a method of extracting natural gas from underground — on Amity, a small town in Pennsylvania, through the eyes of resident Stacey Haney, who helped bring national attention to what fracking did to her hometown.
Kristina Lauren Anderson (The Alienist) will write the script. No outlet is attached yet.
Haney, a lifelong resident of Amity, initially saw the fracking boom in and around the town, like ...
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