The audiovisual company A24 has acquired the rights to Paris Hilton's memoirs for a price that, according to Deadline, is in the six figures. It will be a television series. There is still no known scriptwriter who has signed on for the project, but it is known who will produce the fiction in addition to A24, including Paris Hilton herself through 11:11 Media, her production company, and the sisters Dakota and Elle Fanning with their production company Lewellen Pictures.
The idea that there is an attempt to produce a biopic of Paris Hilton is not a surprising fact in itself. The influencer, businesswoman and television personality has been part of the pop culture imagination since her adolescence, when she began to be known as a celebutante, which is what she calls the daughters of relevant figures in American high society. She was the daughter of businessman Richard Hilton, owner of one of California's leading real estate companies and grandson of the founder of the Hilton hotel empire.
And, when a homemade sex tape was leaked in 2003 and was talked about by all the media at the time, instead of keeping a low profile, he took advantage of his instant fame to obtain an indirect financial return. This is how she became a reality television star by starring in the reality show The simple life with another daughter of celebrities, Nicole Ritchie, daughter of musician Lionel Ritchie, and later she knew how to reformulate herself as a businesswoman.
What is striking is that behind the project is a production company with the profile of A24, one of the hottest entertainment companies in the sector. On television he has produced series with an authorial profile such as The Carmichael Show, I'm Sorry, Irma Vep and Ramy. In addition, they are behind two recent hits such as Bronca, the black comedy that is up for the Emmy for best miniseries, and Euphoria, the critically adored project that has already brought Zendaya two Emmy awards.
In cinema they also have no shortage of titles to boast about. They are behind already cult films such as the teenage Lady Bird, the science fiction Ex Machina, the horror Hereditary and Midsommar, and this year they surprised Hollywood by winning seven Oscars with Everything at once everywhere, including film, direction , screenplay, actor, actress and supporting actress.
According to Hilton, she signed Paris The Memoir for the following reason: “I wrote this book in an effort to understand my place at a defining moment: the renaissance of technology, the age of influencers. And I also wrote this book so that the world can know who I am now. “I focused on key aspects of my life that led me to the things I am most proud of: how power was taken from me and how I took it back, how I built a thriving business, marriage and family.”
As she explains, she doesn't want young women to blame the mistakes made by Paris Hilton, but rather she wants them to stop "hating themselves for their own mistakes." She wants them to “laugh and cry and embrace every aspect of who they are without fear and pride” because everyone has their “own brand of intelligence” and that they don't have to fit into anyone else's standards.
