ABC Studios has bought rights to
Director David France's AIDS drama How To Survive a Plague.
According to The Hollywood Reporter,
which first broke the story, ABC is considering producing a dramatic
miniseries based on the Oscar-nominated documentary.
Plague offers a fearless
look at the rise and success of HIV/AIDS advocacy groups ACT UP (AIDS
Coalition To Unleash Power) and TAG (Treatment Action Group). The
powerful movie pieces together archival footage to tell the story of
two coalitions – ACT UP and TAG – “whose activism and
innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable
condition.”
France
said he envisions the miniseries will delve deeper into the early
days of AIDS activism and how it helped fuel the burgeoning gay
rights movement.
“We
know we'd like it to be an extended story that's not just about AIDS
and what AIDS wrought but about this tremendous civil rights movement
that grew from the ashes of AIDS and the dawn of the lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgender movement,” he told The
Hollywood Reporter.
France,
along with Howard Gertler and John Lyons, will serve as executive
producers.