I thought I had the tale of the vanishing MP to myself, but I’m glad I was wrong
Jennifer Lawrence was all set to play Silicon Valley fraudster Elizabeth Holmes in new movie Bad Blood – the next film from Adam McKay, director of Don’t Look Up, which Lawrence also starred in. Then she caught The Dropout, on streaming service Hulu, where Amanda Seyfried plays, you’ve guessed it, Elizabeth Holmes. “I thought she was terrific. I was like, ‘Yeah, we don’t need to redo that.’ She did it,” said Lawrence and promptly exited Bad Blood.
But companies making “based on” series and films don’t share Lawrence’s sentiment. Once upon a time, broadcasters or streamers balked if they knew there was already a project in train about a particular subject. Now, they are positively encouraged: someone else thinks there’s a market for it too! The “true” prefix is such big business that it has become routine to see many TV series, films or podcasts all on the same subject.
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