Amazon Studios is developing a TV series based on “Vanderbilt,” the historical work written by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe, the studio announced Wednesday.
Based on the history of Cooper’s famous family, “Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty” will trace 400 years of the CNN anchor’s maternal lineage, beginning with patriarch Cornelius ‘Commodore’ Vanderbilt and leading to his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt. The show will stream on Amazon Prime Video.
Cooper is attached as an executive producer.
The official logline is as follows: “From the family’s humble beginnings in New Amsterdam, patriarch Cornelius ‘Commodore’ Vanderbilt weaponized cunning, cutthroat business tactics to amass unimaginable wealth leading to power struggles between heirs over control, salacious scandals and financial ruin.