Movies and stories get recycled and remade all the time. The 2021 film West Side Story was a remake of the 1961 movie of the same name, which was a take-off on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, which borrowed from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

Movies and stories get recycled and remade all the time. The 2021 film West Side Story was a remake of the 1961 movie of the same name, which was a take-off on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, which borrowed from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

Your assignment is to propose a Netflix miniseries based on The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield. In the first part of your proposal, summarize the story, characters and plot as they exist in the book. In the second part, explain what you would keep and what you would change for your miniseries.

Bear in mind a few things. No one tries to corner the gold market these days, because the money system works differently. So come up with another scheme, perhaps based on social media or cryptocurrency. Also, the opportunities for women are much broader today than in Josie’s time; your Josie will have more options than the real Josie had.

Use your imagination, but make your story believable. And make it appealing: you’re trying to win over the Netflix bosses.

500 words approx.

No citations required
(I have the book below, willing to tip big)