Berlanti/Schechter Films & Yan Fisher To Produce True Crime Dramedy ‘Hang The Decorators’ At Amazon MGM Studios

EXCLUSIVE: Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter are producing the Amazon MGM Studios dark comedy feature Hang the Decorators from scribe Mike Makowsky (Death by Lightning, Bad Education).

Amazon MGM Studios optioned the rights for the project which is in current development.

Based on a true story, Hang the Decorators follows Alexander Blarek and Frank Pellecchia, two gay interior designers who find love, freedom and unexpected power while designing extravagant mega-homes for the world’s most dangerous drug kingpin and his beguiling wife. But when their glamorous world begins to crumble, the two designers are forced to confront just how much they’re willing to risk — and their refusal to turn against one another could ultimately cost them everything.

Berlanti/Schechter Films are producing alongside Makowsky and Yan Fisher for Invisible String Films.

Michael McGrath, Berlanti/Schechter’s EVP, brought the project to the company.

Makowsky most recently created and wrote all episodes of Netflix’s Gotham, AFI and TCA-award winning limited series Death by Lightning, which received four Emmy nominations. He also wrote and produced Bad Education, starring Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney. That project world premiered at TIFF in 2019 and was acquired by HBO in a global deal for $20 million. Makowsky received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie. He is represented by CAA and Jackoway.

Berlanti/Schechter Films is currently in post-production on rom-com Red, White & Royal Wedding.