Regina King & David E. Kelley Power Up For Adaptation Of Tom Wolfe’s ‘A Man In Full’

Actor, producer and director Regina King and writer, producer David E. Kelley are joining forces to adapt the Tom Wolfe novel “A Man in Full.”

As reported by Deadline, Netflix has given the project a straight-to-series order with six total episodes. Kelley will act as showrunner, writer, and executive producer, while King will direct and executive produce. This project is a part of King’s first-look deal with Netflix through her production company, Royal Ties, which was signed in May 2019.

Wolfe’s 1998 novel follows Atlanta real estate mogul Charles Croker as he faces sudden bankruptcy and finds himself in the midst of political and business interests as he defends his empire from those attempting to capitalize on his fall from grace.

It is Kelley’s latest project for the streamer with upcoming series such as Lincoln Lawyer and Anatomy of a Scandal. It comes after King starred in Netflix feature The Harder They Fall, which was released earlier this month.

Regina King is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and four Primetime Emmy Awards, the most for an African-American performer. In 2019, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. From 2015 to 2017, King starred in the ABC anthology series American Crime, for which she won two Primetime Emmy Awards, and in 2018, she starred in the Netflix miniseries Seven Seconds, for which she won her third Emmy Award. She starred in Barry Jenkins’ film adaptation of the James Baldwin novel If Beale Street Could Talk (2018). For her performance, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. King won her fourth Emmy Award for starring in the dystopian superhero limited series Watchmen (2019).

David E. Kelley is an American television writer, producer, and former attorney, known as the creator of Doogie Howser, M.D., Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, The Practice, Ally McBeal, Boston Public, Boston Legal, Harry’s Law, Goliath, Big Little Lies, Mr. Mercedes, Big Sky, and Nine Perfect Strangers as well as several films. Kelley is one of very few screenwriters to have created shows that have aired on all four top commercial U.S. television networks (ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC).