The high-profile television version of Tom Wolfe’s “The Bonfire of the Vanities” will reportedly no longer be made for Apple TV because of creative differences.
Apple TV will not go ahead with a series dramatization of “The Bonfire of the Vanities.”
This would have been the third version of Wolfe’s famous 1980s novel about greed and Wall Street, and it was to be made by “Ally McBeal” and “The Practice” writer/producer David E. Kelley. Now according to Deadline, the deal is off and the production team will shop the series around to other streamers and networks.
Neither Apple nor the production team at Warner Bros. Television officially announced the series was in development, but it was first reported to be in the works in April 2026. Now unspecified sources say that Apple TV and Warner Bros were not creatively aligned over the project.