‘White Hot’ Abercrombie Doc Producer Options Book On Vegas Mogul Steve Wynn

Etan Vlessing
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A biography on the rise and fall of Steve Wynn, the longtime Las Vegas casino owner and billionaire, is being developed for a small or big screen treatment.

Scott Jay Kaplan and Emmet McDermott’s CoverStory producer banner optioned Christina Binkley’s Winner Takes All book about Wynn’s meteoric rise from scrappy bingo parlor operator to casino billionaire for a film or TV adaptation. Wynn resigned from his corporate empire in 2018 amid sexual misconduct allegations.

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CoverStory’s McDermott produced White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch, Alison Klayman’s documentary for Netflix about the popularity and ruin of the once coveted “all-American” retail brand.

Binkley will co-produce the Winner Takes All adaptation, which will be set mainly in the 1990s as Wynn’s drive for power set up his ultimate corporate demise. That created a vacuum of power filled by his ex-wife Elaine, on whom Wynn blamed his downfall.

“We are immensely lucky to work with Christina on this larger-than-life story. And in Vegas, luck is everything,” said McDermott in a statement. CoverStory are also at work on Go Deep, with Hyper Object and Adam McKay producing for Amazon.

Binkley writes for publications like WSJ Magazine, The New Yorker and The Wall Street Journal. She was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Sept 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

“I am beyond thrilled to have the opportunity to adapt this incredible story of guts, avarice and comeuppance in Sin City,” Binkley said in her own statement. She is represented by Peter Ginsberg and Holly Frederick at Curtis Brown.

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