Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are set to executive produce an HBO movie about Roger Ailes, according to a Deadline Hollywood exclusive.
The site's Nikki Finke reports that the "Morning Joe" co-hosts have signed onto the project, which will be based on Gabriel Sherman's upcoming biography about Ailes. A source described the movie, saying, "HBO prefers to take on Fox News through Ailes. The idea is that it should make Fox News look like a Mafia, and you get into this through Ailes, sidestepping Murdoch, not approaching the story head on."
Sherman, media writer for New York magazine, has written extensively about the Fox News CEO. He penned a cover story about Ailes' objectives for the 2012 election last year, which the network hotly contested.
His book is set to be released in summer 2013. With no manuscript to read yet, an HBO executive told Finke, "We’ll wait to see what the script looks like and then decide whether to develop further."
The upcming biography has been a thorn in Ailes' side for some time now. There were reports that Ailes was trying to expedite the publication of a competing book by conservative writer Zev Chafets. In June, a local newspaper owned by Roger Ailes canceled Sherman's subscription — and also canceled his wife's subscription after she tried to sign up.
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