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Darren Star Teams With Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas To Adapt Her Debut Novel ‘Climbing In Heels’ For Universal Television


Darren Star is set to co-write and executive produce a drama series based on film producer Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas' debut novel, Climbing in Heels.

Though fictional, the novel has echoes of Goldsmith-Thomas rise in Hollywood at William Morris Agency where she became a powerhouse agent representing Julia Roberts, Jennifer Lopez, Madonna, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Spike Lee and Nicholas Cage, among others. Today, she is Lopez’s producing partner and President of the actress and pop singer’s Nuyorican Productions where they’ve had such box office hits as Hustlers andstreaming successes such as The Mother on Netflix. Star adds, “I’m excited to team up with Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas to bring Climbing in Heels – her addictive fictional account of Hollywood in the 1980s through a female lens – to the screen.

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