I think given what’s going on in the world today, it will be more important than ever to recognize that fame and fortune isn’t the key to a person’s happiness,” Roth tells The Hollywood Reporter.Īdds Collins’ daughter Rory Green: “We’re very excited that a whole new generation will be introduced to the deliciously decadent Jackie Collins experience.”Ĭollins, who passed away from breast cancer in September 2015 at age 77, became one of the world’s best-selling novelists by publishing more than 40 novels in a career that stretched over six decades. “We want to adapt Jackie Collins’ bestseller into an entertaining but gritty contemporary series that will take an honest and real look at what it means to be part of a celebrity family. Toronto: Jason Priestley to Direct Suspense Thriller 'Projekt M' for Samizdat Pictures (Exclusive) Published in 1994, it followed Hollywood Wives and Hollywood Husbands and traced the lives and scandalous behavior of a group of five privileged twenty-somethings - Jordanna Levitt, Cheryl Landers, Grant Lennon Jr., Marjory Sanderson and Shep Worth - who share a zip code and desire to escape lives lived in the shadows of successful parents.

Hollywood Kids was the third installment in iconic novelist Jackie Collins’ juicy Hollywood series and found her setting her sights on the offspring of Tinseltown elite. Perry to adapt the 1994 tome Hollywood Kids as a one-hour drama series. Priestley will executive produce alongside Roth and Perry, who executive produced the Netflix hit series Virgin River, with an eye to direct the project if schedules work out. The team is said to be currently on the hunt for a writer to adapt. The actor-director-producer has partnered with Collins’ estate and Reel World Management’s Roma Roth and Christopher E. Jason Priestley has found a new project for the small screen courtesy of the late Jackie Collins.

Series jason priestley