Amazon MGM Studios to Adapt 'Glossy' Book into TV Series about Beauty Brand Glossier

Director Lindsey Anderson Beer set to produce series under LAB Brew production company; Show aims to illustrate the rise of the beauty brand from humble start to securing a billion-dollar valuation in 2019.

• Amazon MGM Studios has acquired the rights to adapt Marisa Meltzer’s 'Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss’s Glossier' into a TV series. The book peels back the pastel curtain to uncover the minimalistic beauty brand’s meteoric success.
• Director and screenwriter Lindsey Anderson Beer is set to produce the series under her LAB Brew production company. She is known for her notable projects like 'Pet Sematary: Bloodline' and an upcoming reboot of Tim Burton’s 'Sleepy Hollow'.
• The series is in the early stages of development and currently searching for a showrunner. No release date has been announced yet.
• Meltzer’s book, published in September, offers in-depth interviews with Weiss, former Glossier employees, and investors, covering the brand’s journey from its humble start to securing a billion-dollar valuation in 2019.
• The book also delves into why Emily Weiss, the brand's founder, stepped down at the height of Glossier's popularity. The TV series aims to elaborate on this and other key aspects of Glossier's rise to fame.

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