Tom Wolfe's 1998 book "A Man in Full" being adapted into a Netflix series

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Netflix has picked up six episodes of a drama based on the bestselling 1998 Tom Wolfe fiction opus “A Man in Full” about an Atlanta real estate mogul’s fall from grace.

Executive producers Regina King (”One Night in Miami”) and David E. Kelley (”Ally McBeal,” “The Practice,” “Nine Perfect Strangers”) are overseeing the project.

“All I can say is when David E. Kelley calls, you just say yes,” King said in story broken by Variety. “I know this partnership will produce something special.”

King previously worked on an FX project about the Atlanta child murders that never made it to fruition.

Soon after the book’s release, there were talks in 1999 to create an NBC miniseries based on “A Man in Full.” That project died on the vine.

Wolfe, who died in 2018, made a name for himself with a raft of bestsellers, including 1979's historical nonfiction book “The Right Stuff” about the Mercury Seven astronauts and his fictional 1987 Wall Street satire, “The Bonfire of the Vanities.” His style of journalism featured a broad array of literary techniques and he used his journalistic observational style to populate his fictional work as well.

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