Politics & Power Quote by Jackie Collins

Jackie Collins drops this line like a casually lit match: a breezy bit of industry chatter that also doubles as a power move. “Currently” signals momentum and relevance, the author-as-brand staying in motion. “One of the studios” is conspicuously vague, a name withheld not out of discretion but control. The point isn’t which studio; it’s that studios are calling. Collins positions herself not as a novelist hoping Hollywood will notice, but as a negotiator already at the table.

The subtext is pure Collins: sex, money, and leverage, but rendered through media logistics instead of bedroom choreography. “Making American Star as a TV series” is less about artistic adaptation than about expansion. A TV series promises endurance - an ongoing drip of glamour and scandal rather than the one-and-done prestige of a film. It also mirrors how Collins’ novels work: episodic, addictive, built on cliffhangers and social climbing. Television isn’t a compromise; it’s the form that best matches her narrative engine.

Context matters. Collins spent decades being dismissed as “guilty pleasure” while quietly mastering what publishers and producers actually reward: compulsive readability and a high-concept world you can franchise. This quote reads like a dispatch from the moment when the culture industry finally caught up to what her readership always knew: her stories weren’t too much for the screen - they were basically pre-adapted, waiting for the right market conditions and the right executive appetite for glossy, unapologetic excess.