Exclusive: The rise, fall and subsequent rise of famous shoe designer and entrepreneur Steve Madden will be the subject of a TV series. Michael Rapaport (Atypical) will play Madden in the project, produced by Meryl Poster’s Superb Entertainment.
Superb’s Poster and Kara Feifer have optioned the rights to produce a TV series based on Madden’s life, which is detailed in his 2020 memoir, The Cobbler: How I Disrupted An Industry, Fell From Grace & Came Back Stronger Than Ever. Search is currently underway for a writer.
A college dropout who fell in love with shoes while working in a mom and pop shoe store in his Long Island home town, Madden took his company, which makes his eponymous shoe brand, from the fledgling startup he founded thirty years ago with a mere $1,100 to a global juggernaut.
Madden’s complicated story also includes a criminal conviction and a prison sentence...
Superb’s Poster and Kara Feifer have optioned the rights to produce a TV series based on Madden’s life, which is detailed in his 2020 memoir, The Cobbler: How I Disrupted An Industry, Fell From Grace & Came Back Stronger Than Ever. Search is currently underway for a writer.
A college dropout who fell in love with shoes while working in a mom and pop shoe store in his Long Island home town, Madden took his company, which makes his eponymous shoe brand, from the fledgling startup he founded thirty years ago with a mere $1,100 to a global juggernaut.
Madden’s complicated story also includes a criminal conviction and a prison sentence...
- 4/27/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Coming off a four-season run on Netflix’s praised Atypical, Michael Rapaport is set to play a TV dad on another high-profile streaming comedy series. He will star in Amy Schumer’s Hulu series Life & Beth.
Written, directed, executive produced and starring Schumer, Life & Beth follows Beth (Schumer), whose life looks pretty great on paper. Impressive to everyone she grew up with. She makes a good living as a wine distributor. She’s in a long-term relationship with an attractive, successful guy and lives in Manhattan. When a sudden incident forces Beth to engage with her past, her life changes forever. Through flashbacks to her teen self, Beth starts to learn how she became who she is and who she wants to become. We’ll go on her journey toward building a more authentic life. Learning to express herself and living in an intentional way. A trip...
Written, directed, executive produced and starring Schumer, Life & Beth follows Beth (Schumer), whose life looks pretty great on paper. Impressive to everyone she grew up with. She makes a good living as a wine distributor. She’s in a long-term relationship with an attractive, successful guy and lives in Manhattan. When a sudden incident forces Beth to engage with her past, her life changes forever. Through flashbacks to her teen self, Beth starts to learn how she became who she is and who she wants to become. We’ll go on her journey toward building a more authentic life. Learning to express herself and living in an intentional way. A trip...
- 4/19/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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