Dakota And Elle Fanning Are Producing A Paris Hilton Biopic Series

Paris Hilton’s memoir is being tailored right into a TV sequence after it was optioned by the studio A24. The information was reported by Deadline on Thursday, and a consultant for A24 confirmed it with BuzzFeed.

While many particulars concerning the sequence stay beneath wraps, Dakota and Elle Fanning, by way of their manufacturing firm Lewellen Pictures, are among the many government producers.

Paris herself, by way of her firm 11:11 Media, can be government producing.

She first rose to fame as a New York socialite earlier than starring on the fact TV sequence The Simple Life from 2003 to 2007.

In March, Paris launched her memoir, titled Paris: The Memoir. According to the Associated Press, among the many matters that Paris discusses in her guide are her time residing with undiagnosed ADHD, alleged abuse on the Provo Canyon School, and the undesirable launch of a intercourse tape within the early aughts.

Prior to her memoir, Paris was the topic of the 2020 documentary, This Is Paris, which additionally addressed the alleged abuse on the boarding college, in addition to her private life {and professional} profession as a DJ.

However, Paris’s life has routinely generated controversy. Videos from early in Paris’s rise to fame confirmed her utilizing racist and anti-gay slurs, which she reportedly addressed in her memoir. “The N-word. The C-word. The F-word. (Not that F-word, the worse one.) I look back on some of the things I said in the years after I left Provo, in the throes of PTSD, and I’m mortified,” Hilton wrote, in keeping with Paper. “I’m grossed out, because that means those creepy people got inside my head. I never really left them behind.”

According to People, Paris additionally addressed in her memoir her saying in a 2016 interview that she had voted for Donald Trump within the presidential election that 12 months. “When I was put on the spot in an interview, I pretended I voted for Donald Trump because he was an old family friend and owned the first modeling agency I signed with — and when I left to go to another agency, he was furious and intimidated the shit out of me on the phone,” Hilton wrote, in keeping with People. “The truth is even worse: I didn’t vote at all.”

With the guide’s TV choice announcement, Paris joins Pamela Anderson, Tonya Harding, and Monica Lewinsky as the newest movie star who skilled intense fame within the late Nineties or early 2000s to see their life become a sequence or movie.