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Fox is developing a drama series about the richest man in the world having to flee his private island after a global financial collapse.
Billionaire Apocalypse (w/t) comes from The Morning Show creator Jay Carson, who will write, and exec producers including Hugh Jackman, Pulp Fiction producer Lawrence Bender and Kevin Brown, exec producer of Starz’ Flesh and Bone.
The network is unveiling the project at Mipcom, where it is hunting for international partners.
Fox Entertainment Studios is producing and it will be distributed internationally by Fox Entertainment Global.
The series follows the richest man on the planet, 200 of his employees, and his family as they are forced to flee to his private island in the wake of a global financial collapse, where the employees and family members — who he’s treated as afterthoughts for decades — quickly realize he’s no longer rich and thus no longer in charge.
There’s no cast set so don’t take Jackman’s involvement as a sign he’s fronting this.
Carson is the former Clinton aide (and recent RFK Jr. whisperer) who was a supervising producer on Netflix’s House of Cards before he created Apple’s The Morning Show. Bender has produced films including Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Bastards and Good Will Hunting and TV shows such as The CW’s Roswell, New Mexico and Netflix’s Seven Seconds. He was also an EP on Flesh and Bone, as was Brown, who has also worked on Seven Seconds, HBO’s Soul of the Game and the Trumbo film. Jackman is obviously coming off the back of Deadpool & Wolverine.
