Titan1Studios to adapt story of the Hudson’s Bay Company

NEWS BRIEF: Titan1Studios in Canada has acquired the rights to turn non-fiction book The Company: The Rise & Fall of the Hudson’s Bay Empire into a historical drama series and is searching for a showrunner to oversee the adaptation.

Set in the 1820s, the series will explore the bloody war of attrition between the Hudson’s Bay Company and its rival, the North West Company, culminating in their forced corporate merger and the ruthless rise of Sir George Simpson. The book was written by Stephen R Bown and published in 2020.