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Jeff Wachtel’s Future Shack Signs Deal With Joanna Coles to Produce Series, Including Adaptation of MSNBC Anchor Katy Tur’s Memoir (EXCLUSIVE)


Jeff Wachtel’s Future Shack Entertainment shingle has a development deal with Daily Beast's Joanna Coles, who has optioned MSNBC's Katy Tur's memoir.

Fresh off the premiere of its new Fox drama “Murder in a Small Town,” Jeff Wachtel ’s Future Shack Entertainment shingle is ramping up its development slate — next via a first-look pact with Daily Beast chief content officer Joanna Coles. Beyond the pact with Coles, Wachtel and Future Shack have several other projects in the works, including the previously announced “Cleat Cute,” from athletes Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe and their production banner, A Touch More. There’s “Ender’s Game” with Gigi Pritzker’s Madison Wells and a limited series adaptation of Ukraine president Vlodymyr Zelenskyy press secretary Iuliia Mendel’s memoir “The Fight of Our Lives.”

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