Sony Pictures to Adapt MASTER OF CEREMONIES: A TRUE STORY OF LOVE, MURDER, ROLLER SKATES & CHIPPENDALES
Sony Pictures Television has picked up the rights to David Henry Sterry’s memoir Master of Ceremonies: A True Story of Love, Murder, Roller Skates & Chippendales, and they are planning to develop it as a series.
Gordon Smith (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) has signed on to write the series adaptation, and he will serve as showrunner. Here’s some information on the setting and story for the series giving us an idea of what to expect. It sounds pretty wild:
The memoir of Sterry’s time as the MC at the world-famous male strip club is a window into the girls-just-want-to-have-fun, greed-is-good, party-all-the time, coked-up world of 1980’s America through the eyes of Manhattan’s hottest show: Chippendales, where women rule the roost and men get rich and famous (or infamous).
Smith’s adaptation will be a semi-fictionalized premium television series based on a true, grabbed from the headlines, fall of Rome story that starts in the epicenter of the decadent, deregulated, 80s America: New York City. The club turns a revolutionary release of the female libido and sexual empowerment into a cultural phenomenon, a cash cow, and the hottest, most outrageous and talked about show in “The City That Never Sleeps.” Ambition, addiction, and greed creep in, as the club becomes a drug distribution center for the Upper East Side and people are murdered in cold blood.
Well, that sounds like some crazy days! Smith will executive produce along with Sterry and Jonathan Taylor Thomas. Smith has done some great world on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, so I’m looking forward to seeing what he ends up bringing to this new series.
Source: Deadline