EXCLUSIVE: A bombshell investigation into how fossil gas firms blocked motion to forestall local weather change is being became a TV collection.
David MacPherson, creator of Prime Video collection The Rig, is teaming with The Spanish Princess producer New Pictures on an adaptation of Geoff Dembicki‘s The Petroleum Papers: Contained in the Far-Proper Conspiracy to Cowl Up Local weather Change.
Comparable in scope to Hulu hit Dopesick, which was additionally based mostly on a non-fiction work, the e book attracts on tons of of confidential oil business paperwork spanning many years, revealing how the fossil gas business joined forces with right-wing politicians to halt progress on stopping the local weather disaster. Investigative journalist Dembicki tells the story of how American oil firms ignored warnings about local weather devastation as early as 1959. As a substitute of alerting the world to behave on an impending international catastrophe, the businesses created promoting campaigns arguing that local weather change wasn’t actual and that options to grease could be an financial catastrophe. The e book additionally particulars these preventing again, such because the lawyer who introduced Large Tobacco to its knees and turned his consideration to Large Oil.
MacPherson will adapt for the display screen. He has not too long ago discovered success with Martin Compston-starrer The Rig, which launches Season 2 soon on Prime Video and is about on an oil rig.
New Photos boss Willow Grylls and EP Imogen O’Sullivan stated the TV present, which is but to land a purchaser, will construct on Dembicki’s “highly effective investigative journalism to create a multi-stranded drama which lays naked the decades-long conspiracy to dam significant motion on local weather change within the pursuit of revenue.”
“As Donald Trump is elected to his second time period promising to ‘drill, child drill’ this collection couldn’t be extra vital, or extra well timed,” they added.
Dembicki stated: “The story of how oil firms labored behind the scenes for many years to disclaim their function in local weather change isn’t simply some of the enraging company cover-ups in trendy historical past, it’s additionally an interesting human saga of greed, denial and the facility of truth-telling. I couldn’t be extra thrilled that New Photos is bringing it to the display screen.”
All3Media-backed New Photos makes the likes of Starz’ Spanish Queen, ITV’s The Lengthy Shadow and the BBC-Netflix’s Champion. It recently struck a deal with Lupin showrunner George Kay’s Observatory Photos.
