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Gotham Group To Develop Film On Scandalous Socialite Wallis Simpson Based On Anna Pasternak Book ‘The American Duchess’
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deadline.comBy Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, Film EXCLUSIVE: At a moment of endless fascination and controversy involving the Royal Family, what better time to mount a movie about Wallis Simpson, the woman who prompted King Edward VIII to abdicate the crown in 1936?
The Gotham Group has closed a rights deal for The American Duchess: The Real Wallis Simpson by New York Times-bestselling author Anna Pasternak.
The film will be produced by The Gotham Group’s Lee Stollman and Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, with the author exec producing. In light of shows like The Crown – which told a fascinating story about how a young Queen Elizabeth was forced to confront Edward for his actions as a Hitler booster — Downton Abbey, and the CNN series The Windsors, to say
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