Yahoo News The Crown producers to make drama series about Joan and Jackie Collins
The lives of iconic British sisters Joan and Jackie Collins will be adapted into a six-part drama from the producers of The Crown.
The series will chart the rise of the indomitable women and their dazzling careers, revealing the inside story of the ultimate Hollywood fantasy: from a teenage bedroom in post-war London, to the glitz and glamour of 1980s Beverly Hills.
The drama will also focus on Joan and Jackie's journey to fame, as each carved out longstanding careers – Joan as an award-winning actress, and Jackie as a bestselling author.
As they struggle to make it against all the odds, the powerhouse sisters negotiate the issues that many women still face today: sexism, misogyny, harassment, abuse, ageism and pay equity.
The series has been described as "an extraordinary rite of passage story about two sisters who did it for themselves – and each other – to define the 1980s".
Dame Joan Collins won one of the last studio contracts in Hollywood's Golden Age. In 1982, she became the biggest and highest paid female star on television for her iconic performance as Alexis Carrington in the US TV series Dynasty, and won a Golden Globe for the role in 1983.
The 85-year-old actress most recently starred in the Emmy winning hit series American Horror Story. Joan was awarded the Damehood in 2015 for her services to charity, to add to the Order of the British Empire she received in 1996 for her services to drama.
Joan joined older sister Jackie in LA and wrote novels from her own experiences, creating a new strong female lead and reinventing women's fiction.
In 1982, she received a record-breaking $1m advance for her novel Hollywood Wives. Jackie Collins went on to write 32 New York Times bestselling novels, shifting more than 500 million books around the world in a trailblazing career that spanned decades. In the 1970s Joan starred in two films based on her sister's novels.
Joan said: "I am delighted that such a prestigious team wants to tell our story, and I know my sister Jackie would be as excited as I am to be involved!"
Jackie lost her battle with breast cancer in 2015.
Jackie's daughters said: "We are delighted that Faye, Caroline and Sony Pictures Television will be producing the remarkable story of our mother and our aunt and their rise to stardom. Our mother always told us when we were growing up, 'Girls can do anything!' and Joan & Jackie will fabulously depict how true that is!"
Executive Producers are Caroline Harvey, Faye Ward – who produced The Crown – and Hannah Farrell, whose credits include Suffragette and Jane Eyre.
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