Titan1Studios Adapts 'The Company' as House of Hudson — SkimNews
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- Titan1Studios secured exclusive media and adaptation rights to Stephen R. Bown’s 2020 book The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson’s Bay Empire and is developing the TV series House of Hudson.
- House of Hudson is set in the 1820s and centers on the Hudson’s Bay Company’s battle with the North West Company, culminating in a forced merger and the rise of George Simpson, known as “The Little Emperor.”
- House of Hudson is planned to shift between London and Montreal boardrooms and the wilderness, spanning British imperial machinery, the U.S. Pacific Northwest frontier and the corporate origins of modern Canada.
- Titan1Studios is conducting a showrunner search while CEO and executive producer Rathan Moorthy and VP of Content Wes Ambrecht lead the project; rights negotiations involved Westwood Creative Art’s Jake Babad and Caroline Vassallo.
- The Company won the 2021 National Business Book Award and the J.W. Dafoe Book Prize following its 2020 publication.
- Rathan Moorthy described the Hudson’s Bay Company as “effectively the Amazon of the 19th century,” citing its own currency, private military and control over millions of square miles.
- Stephen R. Bown said he wrote The Company to bring the human drama, complex motivations and fierce corporate rivalries of the fur trade to life.
Why it matters: For Titan1Studios, House of Hudson becomes a second book-based television project alongside Events at Unity Farm, adding a 2021 award-winning history property to its slate. Moorthy and Ambrecht are leading it, but the open showrunner search confirms the project remains in development rather than production.
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