Glossier to Get the Amazon TV Treatment – The Hollywood Reporter

Glossier is poised to get the TV treatment. Amazon MGM Studios proved triumphant in what was the industry’s latest IP bidding war, this one for the rights to adapt Glossy, about the millennium beauty brand and its female founder Emily Weiss. The book, from journalist and author Marisa Meltzer, became an instant New York Times best seller when it was released in early September. Per multiple sources, Pet Sematary’s Lindsey Anderson Beer and her production company LAB Brew are attached to produce what’s expected to be an ongoing series at the streaming service, should it move forward. As The New York Times Book Review described Meltzer’s roughly 300-page book, Glossy is “a compulsively readable narrative of beauty, business, privilege, and mogul-dom.” It goes inside the beauty company that built a cult-like following for must-have products with names like “Balm dotcom” and “Boy Brow” – and changed the way that brands interface with and ultimately sell to a millennial and Gen Z customer base in the process. At the center is brand founder and former CEO Emily Weiss, who got her starts as the Teen Vogue “superintern” on The Hills, before rising swiftly from blogger to boardroom. With access to Weiss
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