“The Hills Are Alive” with the sound of f-bombs.
The much-anticipated TV show “The Baroness” about the famous “The Sound of Music” von Trapp family has been plunged into drama after a writer allegedly tried to stage a coup and take over the production.
Myles von Trapp, the scion developing the show, claims that writer Jaclyn Alexis Cruz insisted that the family fire their head writer and hire her wife Ana Marie Cruz as the show’s head writer and runner.
Then, according to Myles von Trapp, the couple demanded the von Trapp family sign over the full rights of their story to their production company.
That caused massive drama, particularly as the von Trapps gave over their rights years, culminating in the 1965 movie starring Julie Andrews as Maria and Christopher Plummer as Georg von Trapp.
Maria, who died in 1987, aged 82, sold her memoir to German producers in the 1950s for $9,000 and inadvertently signed away all of the rights to the family story going forward.
Rodgers and Hammerstein then purchased the story to turn it into a Broadway show, and sold the movie rights for the show to 20th Century Fox.
The von Trapp family didn’t have much of a say in “The Sound of Music,” although Maria did receive royalties.
The alleged attempted “Baroness” coup led to a massive blow-up with writer Jaclyn texting Myles von Trapp Derbyshire — Georg and Maria’s great-great-grandson — “Like I need a failed von Trapp family to give me media or publicity. You’re a nobody. A broke nobody. Your level of projection is hilarious.”
Von Trapp – who says he then fired Jaclyn as a writer on the project – replied, artfully, “The von Trapp family says f–k you.” And, “Good luck in business. You will fail miserably.”
He told us, “The von Trapps will not be selling away our lives and our story again. We are incredibly proud of our history, how the family has overcome so…
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