Werner Herzog famously – perhaps that should be infamously – knows a little something about filming in the Amazon. So he feels like the right choice to launch a TV series that will feature the jungle heavily. He's now attached to help develop Fordlandia.
Producer Ashok Amritraj is spearheading the potential show, nabbing the rights to Greg Grandin's nonfiction tome. It charts how Henry Ford, the richest man in the world in the 1920s, hatched a plan to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon. Christopher Wilkinson, the writer behind film including Pawn Sacrifice, will adapt the book for the screen.
“Fordlandia is an incredible true story, and we are thrilled to be working with Werner, one of the world’s most iconic filmmakers, and Chris, a truly exceptional writer,” Amritraj tells Deadline. “The story of a tycoon with absolute power imposing his vision of America on the world is extremely relevant today.”
The show itself is still embryonic, and there are no details yet of if and when a channel or streaming service will pick it up.
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