Archive-Driven Series
The Dropout works because the documents are the drama. The Hitz Inheritance is the same machine: cables, wills, front pages, court files, and a family that never threw anything away.
Last updated 2026-07-31
A real paper trail that can structure episodes, a central figure the audience can track, and stakes that climb as the record is opened. The Hitz Inheritance has all three: a seventeen-year-old heiress, a $10 million coffee fortune, and sixty years of unresolved money questions.
About 144 original items from 1965 and 1966: The Washington Post, The Evening Star, Washington Daily News, BILD, BLICK, El Mundo, Ultimas Noticias, French and Swiss regional papers, plus court papers, letters, and photographs. Twelve documents are public with the family’s own pen marks still on them.
Six to eight episodes can move city to city and document to document: Washington disappearance, Caracas cable, Swiss custody war, empty grave, 1966 scandal. A completed pilot script exists. Settings support international co-production (US / Switzerland / Venezuela).
Available for serious inquiry. Sole rights holder. Materials (logline, treatment territory, sample pages, supervised archive access) go out within one business day. Rights page · Machine-readable rights.md.