It clearly wasn’t enough for producer Sonita Gale and her Galeforce Films company to make a documentary (Andrew Carnegie: Rags To Riches, Power To Peace, which screened at the Edinburgh Fest), they’ve now teamed up with Brian Cox to develop either a film or a TV series about the Scots-born American philanthropist{
According to Screen International, Cox (who narrated the doc) and the Galeforce team are busy meeting writers to hear their take on the man’s story, having nabbed the rights to David Nasaw’s 2007 biography. Carnegie, who came to the US from his Scottish home, ended up the second richest man in the world thanks to the steel industry boom at the end of the 19th century. He ended up giving almost all of his massive fortune away to good causes, including funding more than 3000 public libraries around the world. Carnegie Hall in New York is named for him.
“I don’t think a feature could really serve Carnegie. I want to do a six-part series,” says Cox, who plans to take on the later years of the man as someone else plays him during his younger days. “Carnegie’s always been an ambiguous hero of mine. A series could be pretty phenomenal; it’s something I’d like to do while I’m still of an age to do it.”