Jerry Falwell Jr.'s rise and fall to get the limited series treatment from The Loudest Voice author

Deadline

Gabriel Sherman, whose The Loudest Voice in the Room book on Fox News and Roger Ailes was adapted as the 2019 Showtime miniseries The Loudest Voice starring Russell Crowe, is behind another limited TV series adaptation of the rise and fall of a right-wing figure. Sherman will pen the TV adaptation of his Jan. 24 Vanity Fair article "Inside Jerry Falwell Jr.'s Unlikely Rise and Precipitous Fall at Liberty University" for Snowfall producer Groundswell Productions. No network or streamer is yet attached. The article "tells the story of the Trump-anointing dark prince of the Christian right who was brought down by a sex scandal," per Deadline. "He resigned in from Liberty in August 2020 after it emerged that a former Miami pool boy claimed he had been having a seven year affair with Falwell Jr.’s wife Becki and Falwell often liked to watch them have sex. In the piece, Sherman spoke extensively to Falwell and Becki about the tumultuous events that led to his ouster, their fallout, and why he’s finally ready to admit he never had much use for his father’s church anyway." Executive producer Michael London adds: “Gabe Sherman is setting out to tell the story of a great American family business, where the business is religion. It’s an untold story with a larger than life cast of characters amassing vast power and fortunes. Yes, there’s a sex scandal, one that consumed the life of Jerry Jr and his wife Becki, but what’s most surprising is the insight and empathy that Gabe brings to their very human struggle to be true to themselves."