Tinseltown period drama is in the works from Spectrum Originals

Deadline

Author William J. Mann is adapting his 2014 book Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood along with executive producer Kevin Murphy. "Tinseltown is set against the seamy, glamorous backdrop of silent film era," per Deadline." It explores the lives of four pioneer women filmmakers whose lives and livelihoods were threatened by a scandalous murder and the brutal patriarchy of Hollywood’s nascent studio system." Murphy adds: “The show centers on four accomplished women filmmakers who get dragged into the grotesque media circus surrounding a murder. Their careers are upended and they find themselves pushed out of the burgeoning Hollywood studio system, a system Paramount founder Adolph Zukor has been building by strong-arming independent producers and exhibitors ravaged by the Spanish Flu shutdown.”