EXCLUSIVECampside Media is the company behind the popular ChameleonPodcast series that told the story of the Hollywood Con Queen, has lined up its next project – the story of the wild kidnapping attempt of Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer.
This story is being considered for the sixth season of The CW. It is based upon reporting by Jessica Garrison and Ken Bensinger. Chameleon podcast.
In a unique twist, the company is simultaneously working on a television adaptation. It has teamed with Daniel Cohn (who have previously worked on shows like “The Good Wife”) and Jeremy Miller (who have worked in TV productions such as “The Great Gatsby”). Ally McBeal EntourageTo pen the small-screen adaptation.
The Michigan Plot Details exactly what occurred beyond the headlines that stated the FBI had narrowly stopped a kidnapping attempt on the governor of Michigan. This was what the Justice Department called the initial step towards ‘The Big Boogaloo’ – a long-awaited civil war that would overthrow the government – turned out to be something very different once Garrison and Bensinger started digging in.
The men accused of this heinous crime weren’t disciplined killers. They were actually loudmouth stoner goofballs. Their fantasies were largely focused on bodybuilding and beer drinking and they seemed blissfully unaware that any plot was being pursued. One man lived in the basement below a vacuum cleaner company and had to go to the Mexican place next door whenever he needed to use his bathroom. The FBI relied on a number of confidential informants to build its case. These informants were unable to stop engaging in criminal acts and other bizarre behaviors. Even the FBI agents were caught in unfavorable situations. It was all ugly and embarrassing.
Garrison, now of The Los Angeles Times and Ken Bensinger (now of The New York Times), will host the podcast. They discovered this story while working for BuzzFeed News.
Miller and Cohn are currently working simultaneously on the TV adaption. Cohn and Campside are currently working together with Sony Music Entertainment on a TV adaptation. Scams are commonThe fourth season. ChameleonThis documentary tells the story about a small group of government investigators who hunt for the multinational mob responsible for a scam that has caused ordinary Americans to lose their lives savings to scammers.
They met while working for David E. Kelley. They created a series of dramas for limited audiences. Tango, which traces the 18 tumultuous months before, during and after the scandalous production of Last Tango in Paris, directed by Lisa Brühlman and José Padilha, that is being shopped by CBS Studios and Stampede Ventures at Mip, and are writing comedy feature Is this legal?Frankie Shaw directed this video for Amazon.
The premiere season of ChameleonThe first, the story of the Hollywood con woman; the second, High RollersThe story of a check-kiting agent, an FBI undercover agent and a group Las Vegas businessmen pretending to be money launderers is told in. Wild BoysThis book tells the story of two half-starved young men who found refuge in a small Canadian village and began to tell an incredible tale. The fourth man was Scams are commonThe fifth is Dr. DanteThis is the story of one of the most infamous conmen the world has ever heard of.
eOne offered the first season to Will Gluck, Noah Pink, and Noah Pink. High Rollers Wild BoysThese are also being developed for television.
Campside Media is behind podcasts like Suspect, Hooked Run, Bambi, Run. Formed by long-form journalists Josh Dean, Vanessa Grigoriadias, Matt Shaer, along with the screenwriter/producer Adam Hoff, it is backed by ChernobylProducer Sister.
“The goal the entire time we produce a podcast and know it will be adapted is to ultimately get it in the hands of writers as talented as Dan and Jeremy,”Adam Hoff, Campside cofounder, stated. “To find out that they were already working on a version of this story just as we were talking to Ken and Jessica about access meant we could partner everyone from the very beginning, which is a dream come true.”
“Ken and I dug into the Michigan plot thinking we were going to learn about right-wing extremism in America and explore whether the U.S. government is overreaching in prosecuting these cases. And we did that. But we also uncovered a deeply human dark comedy, and we’re so excited to be able to tell that story in a podcast,”Garrison said.
Bensinger added, “This was an extreme example of the kind of case that played to public perceptions, shocking the public in its terrifying detail when it was first revealed just weeks before the 2020 election. But the truth was far stranger and murkier, turning the official story very soundly on its head.”
Miller and Cohn describe the story almost as a comedy about America’s absurdity at the intersection of crime and government. “The lines were so blurred in this case, it was impossible to decipher the good guys from the bad guys,” said Miller. “This feels like Fargo with both sides of America represented. We couldn’t make this stuff up if we tried,”Cohn added
UTA is representing Campside. Miller & Cohn are repped by UTA, Kaplan/Perrone and Yorn, Levine, Barnes, Krintzman.