Here’s some rather interesting news to tell your pharmacist if you’re pressed for conversation. Making a Murderer creators Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos, in collaboration with George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures, are teaming up for a new scripted television drama about the true story of the rise and fall of a giant pharmaceutical company. With the working title of America’s Most Admired Lawbreaker, the series is based on articles written by Huffington Post journalist Steven Brill, who chronicled a company (named quite clearly in his articles) that “created a powerful drug and marketed it aggressively to children and the elderly while allegedly manipulating and hiding data about its side effects.†The company was investigated and agreed to pay more than $2 billion in penalties and settlements, even though it made a reported $30 billion in worldwide sales of the drug.
Ricciardi and Demos are expected to adapt the series — their first project since Murderer — with Nicki Paluga, and will also direct. A network has yet to be attached. We prescribe you to binge-watch it as soon as it’s released.