Nearly two years later, it’s still hard to process what exactly happened on November 8, 2016 — and how Hillary Clinton lost the election. Journalist Amy Chozick has already shed some light on the subject with her memoir “Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns and One Intact Glass Ceiling,” and now there’s word Warner Bros. will be revisiting the saga. According to Deadline, the studio won the rights to “Chasing Hillary” “in a competitive situation” and plans to adapt it as a series.
The bestseller is the culmination of the 10 years Chozick spent covering Clinton, including her time on “The Hillary Beat” in 2016. Published on April 24, “Chasing Hillary” traces both of Clinton’s presidential bids, including her 2008 rivalry with Barack Obama and “the Clinton campaign’s unraveling and her surprising loss to Donald Trump” in 2016.
With a plucky trailblazer of a heroine determined to become the United States’ first female president — and expected to be by most of the country — “Chasing Hillary” has been described as a romantic comedy with a decidedly unhappy, non-romantic ending. (As we all know, Trump triumphed and has managed to sink below the lowest of expectations.) The New York Times described the book as “‘The Devil Wears Prada’ meets ‘Boys on the Bus.'”
Chozick currently writes for the Times and its magazine. She previously worked at The Wall Street Journal and has consulted on “House of Cards.” She received the William Randolph Hearst Fellows Award in 2017 and has been recognized by the Society for Feature Journalism Excellence-in-Features Writing Competition.
Clinton is set to make her executive producing debut with a TV adaptation of Elaine Weiss’ “The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote.” She’s expected to be “actively involved” in making the women’s suffrage drama, including finding a writer and director, developing the script, and casting. She, Madeleine Albright, and Colin Powell are set to guest star on the fifth season premiere of “Madam Secretary,” the CBS drama about the Secretary of State, on October 7.
TriStar Television optioned another Clinton-centric 2016 election tell-all, “Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign” by Amie Parnes and Jonathan Allen, last year.
