Paris Hilton memoir rights obtained by A24 for a TV series adaptation

That’s hot! Are you ready to get reacquainted with The Simple Life and House of Wax actress Paris Hilton? A24 hopes so, because the studio is optining the rights to socialite’s memoir for a TV series adaptation. According to Deadline the deal for Ms. Hilton’s memoir is in the neighborhood of six figures, with Hilton’s media company 11:11 Media, Dakota and Elle Fanning’s Lewellen Pictures, and David Bernad’s Middle Child Pictures producing. No writers have been assigned to the Paris Hilton memoir project, but with the WGA strike resolved, I’m sure they’ll find someone soon.

Paris The Memoir acts as a tell-all from the media princess, focusing on her struggles with ADHD (I hear you, Paris!), her rise to fame and the heat of the pop culture spotlight, and trying to live a life while under constant scrutiny from fans, paparazi, and people looking to capitalize on her fame.

Here’s a synopsis for Paris The Memoir via Amazon:

I was born in New York City on February 17, 1981, three days after Valentine’s Day. 

From the time I was a toddler, my brain skipped and flickered with the chemical imbalance of ADHD. Sometimes it was too much.

I’m not bragging or complaining about it, just telling you: This is my brain. It has a lot to do with how this whole book thing is going to play out, because I love run-on sentences—and dashes. And sentence fragments. I’m probably going to jump around a lot while I tell the story.

I came of age during the most turbulent pop culture period ever.

The character I played—part Lucy, part Marilyn—was my steel-plated armor.

People loved her. Or they loved to hate her, which was just as marketable. I leaned into that character, my ticket to financial freedom and a safe place to hide. I made sure I never had a quiet moment to figure out who I was without her. I was afraid of that moment because I didn’t know what I’d find.

I wrote this book in an effort to understand my place in a watershed moment: the technology renaissance, the age of influencers. I also wrote this book so that the world could know who I am today. I focused on key aspects of my life that led to what I am most proud of–how my power was taken away from me and how I took it back, how I built a thriving business, a marriage and a family.

There are so many young women who need to hear this story. I don’t want them to learn from my mistakes; I want them to stop hating themselves for their own mistakes. I want them to laugh and cry and embrace every aspect of who they are with fearlessness and pride. We all have our own brand of intelligence, and, girl, fuck fitting in.

Adapting Ms. Hilton‘s memoir is a facinating project for A24, a film studio synonymous with risk-taking ventures like Everything Everywhere All At Once, The Lighthouse, Uncut Gems, and whatever horrors Ari Aster dreams up. Will the studio introduce a peculiar angle to the presentation, or will the adaptation of Hilton’s memoir be a straight-forward affair? We’ll have to wait and see.