EXCLUSIVE: Imagine Selling Sunset but with a murder mystery plot. Legendary Television is developing a series based on Kate Weston’s real estate novel How to Make a Killing.
The company, which is behind series such as HBO Max’s Dune Prophecy and Apple’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, has optioned the novel, which was published by Headline earlier this summer.
The series follows star real estate agent and mom-fluencer Amanda Harrington and her high-stakes team as they navigate the cutthroat world of luxury property sales. When rising star Bella is found dead at the open house of a coveted $50M mansion, everyone becomes a suspect in this dark comedy.
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Weston is a former stand-up comedian and author of the YA comedy murder mystery, Murder on A School Night. She also wrote Diary of a Confused Feminist, which was nominated for the Carnegie Medal, the sequel Must Do Better, and her latest adult book was You May Now Kill the Bride.
Legendary has been busy in the television space in recent years. It is also behind the live-action Drops of God for Apple and Netflix’s animated series Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft.
It is currently developing a new sci-fi franchise with Akiva Goldsman, based on three Irwin Allen series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Land of the Giants and The Time Tunnel. It is also working on a live-action Pacific Rim series from Eric Heisserer for Amazon’s Prime Video and recently sold a reboot of Sid and Marty Krofft’s 1974 sci-fi adventure show Land of the Lost to Netflix.
Weston is represented by Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency’s Hannah Ladds.