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EXCLUSIVE: Legendary TV has optioned nan authorities to create a bid based connected sorority recruitment coach Trisha Addicks’ debut book The Rush Bible.
While Addicks’ book, released Tuesday, is simply a “straight-talking guideline for immoderate panicked young female (or, let’s get real, her mom) facing rush,” nan bid will travel a fictional unreserved consulting patient wherever master coaches are paid thousands to usher young women done sorority recruitment.
The bid will unfastened up nan world of “high-stakes, cutthroat world of sorority recruitment, wherever identity, belonging, and sisterhood are each connected nan line.”
“Trisha has crafted a communicative astir power, identity, and belonging pinch singular authenticity and affectional complexity,” Jason Clodfelter, President of TV astatine Legendary Entertainment, said successful a statement. “We’re thrilled to collaborate pinch Eva Longoria, Hyphenate Media Group, and Trisha to bring this provocative and profoundly quality bid to life.”
Legendary and Hyphenate Media Group will nutrient pinch Eva Longoria and Cris Abrego attached arsenic executive producers. Addicks will besides executive produce.
“At its core, The Rush Bible taps into themes that resonate universally,” Longoria, executive shaper and CCO and Co-Founder Hyphenate Media Group, added successful her ain statement. “Trisha Addicks offers america a model into a world of ambition, identity, and nan quest for belonging that resonates acold beyond unreserved civilization aliases moreover assemblage campuses. We were instantly drawn to nan affectional stakes astatine play and couldn’t beryllium much excited to beryllium processing this IP for tv successful business pinch Legendary.”
Addicks, wide regarded arsenic nan nation’s apical sorority unreserved consultant, founded her unreserved consultancy patient It’s All Greek To Me successful 2017. She and her squad connection backstage consulting services to thief young women navigate nan highly competitory recruitment process including one-on-one strategy, question and reply and speech coaching, wardrobe and societal media guidance, and real-time support during rush.
Viewers whitethorn cognize Addicks from HBO Max’s 2023 documentary Bama Rush, which pulled backmost nan curtain connected nan sorority recruitment process astatine nan University of Alabama.
“When Legendary Entertainment came to maine pinch their imagination for The Rush Bible, I knew instantly this was nan correct location for it,” Addicks said. “Their estimation speaks for itself, and nan value and volition they bring to everything they touch is precisely what this communicative deserves. And to person Eva Longoria and her superb squad producing, a female who understands nan powerfulness of female-driven storytelling astatine nan highest level, is specified an honor. I americium beyond excited for what we are going to create together, and I person complete assurance that this squad will bring this world to life nan measurement it was ever meant to beryllium seen.”
