Where Stories & Begin Again.
We option and develop the books, lives, and overlooked works that the industry keeps passing by — and we build them into projects worth making.
Chapter 1 Media is a literary production company devoted to turning remarkable written worlds into film, television, and premium narrative projects.
Our focus is on voices and lives that don't fit neatly into pre-sold franchises — the quirky exuberance of Edward D. Wood Jr., the intimate upstairs-downstairs vantage of Lillian Rogers Parks and her three decades inside the White House, and the strange, human corners of history and culture that deserve another telling.
We acquire and develop the underlying rights — books, life rights, estates, and overlooked cult classics — and shape them into industry-ready packages: treatments, bibles, pilots, and series decks built for studios, streamers, and producing partners. We think like novelists and structure like showrunners, aiming for work that is both commercially viable and literate, equal parts character and concept.
At heart, we're in the business of beginnings: finding the first page of the next story worth betting on, and building the creative and practical bridge from the written word to the screen.