By Jack Giroux/Oct. 14, 2016 4:35 pm EST
Below, learn more about The Bonfire of the Vanities TV series.
The novel follows Sherman McCoy (played by Hanks in the film), a young investment banker who has his life changed by a freak accident. Here’s the book’s synopsis:
Suddenly, one wrong turn makes it all go wrong, and Sherman spirals downward in a sudden fall from grace that sucks him into the ravenous heart of a New York City gone mad during the go-go, racially turbulent, socially hilarious 1980s.
Tom Wolfe’s modern American satire tells the story of Sherman McCoy, a Wall Street “Master of the Universe” who has it all – a Park Avenue apartment, a job that brings wealth, power and prestige, a beautiful wife, an even more beautiful mistress.
There are no other details on what Chuck Lorre has planned for the adaptation. Maybe Wolfe’s near-700 page fiction novel will have better luck as a series, although that isn’t saying much. De Palma’s film was plagued with problems, like Bruce Willis, and made under $16 million at the box-office. The issues the 1990 adaptation faced are documented by Julie Salamon’s The Devil’s Candy: The Bonfire of the Vanities Goes to Hollywood.
