Julie Plec & Greg Berlanti Adapting Chasing Hillary Novel for Netflix

Netflix has ordered to series The Girls on the Bus, inspired by a chapter of Amy Chozick’s best-selling book Chasing Hillary.

Julie Plec (The Vampire Diaries; The Originals; Legacies; Roswell, New Mexico) and Chozick (New York Times journalist and author) are attached as writers and executive producers. Greg Berlanti (Political Animals, Arrow-verse series, You, Everwood) is also an EP, alongside Sarah Schechter (Arrow-verse series, You, Everwood).

The show chronicles four female journalists who follow the every move of a parade of flawed presidential candidates, finding friendship, love and a scandal that could take down not just the presidency but our entire democracy along the way.

Studios behind the project are Berlanti Productions and My So-Called Company in association with Warner Bros. Television.