Charlize Theron’s Secret Menu, Sony’s Maxine Productions & Vox Media Studios Developing Documentary On The Alexander Brothers; Scripted Series Also In Works

EXCLUSIVE: Oren, Tal and Alon Alexander, two high-profile real-estate agents and their brother, were recently charged with sex trafficking after being accused of working together to “repeatedly and violently drug, sexually assault, and rape dozens of victims, according to federal prosecutors.

Their story is now set to be told in documentary form, as well as potentially as a scripted series, after Charlize Theron’s Secret Menu, Sony’s Maxine Productions, which was behind ID’s Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, and Vox Media Studios teamed up on the project.

The project will be based on reporting by Bridget Read and James D. Walsh from New York Magazine, which is part of Vox, with Maxine Productions’ Mary Robertson and Emma Schwartz, who helmed Quiet on Set, being eyed to direct.

Secret Menu, Maxine Productions, and Vox Media Studios will produce and the three companies are also developing a scripted adaptation of the project.

Read and Walsh’s story was published in August and delves into the sexual assault allegations which sees the brothers accused of sexually assaulting more than 40 women dating back to their time as high school students in Miami. The producers will collaborate with the pair on the doc.

Secret Menu was founded by Theron, Dawn Olmstead, Beth Kono, and AJ Dix last year and recently produced two-part documentary, Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter, which debuted on Netflix in September as well as the docu-series Last Call, which debuted on HBO in July 2023. It is also behind a limited series adaptation of horror novel The Quiet Tenant with Blumhouse and Anthony E. Zuiker, original thriller Apex starring Theron and Jane, a psychological thriller feature about the prolific science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick from Alfonso Cuaro.  

Maxine Productions was founded by Robertson in 2022 through an overall deal with Sony Pictures Television. It is also behind Prime Video’s Glitter and Greed: The Lisa Frank Story and Peacock’s Girls Gone Wild: The Untold Story.

Vox Media Studios is behind Netflix’s Full Swing, Peacock’s Good One: A Show About Jokes and Hulu’s Chrissy & Dave Dine Out.