Madoff whistleblower Harry Markopolos - who’s recently come out with his own book, “No One Would Listen,” which recounts his efforts to get regulators to crack down on Madoff - said he’s been approached with offers from Sony and Tom Hanks.Īnd Brad Pitt this month jumped at the chance to buy the rights to Michael Lewis’ new book on the collapse of the housing market, according to industry sources and news reports. Regardless of how things turn out with the “Wall Street” sequel, there’s no denying that Hollywood is on the hunt for good Wall Street stories, hoping that the movie-watching public develops an appetite for financial disaster, after having lived through the last few years. Shoeshine Boy,” has been optioned by Warner Brothers. “My guess is, people are holding their breath to see if the sequel to “Wall Street” is a success or not,” said Doug Stumpf, a Vanity Fair deputy editor, whose 2007 book, “Confessions of a Wall St. The 1987 “Wall Street” gross of $44 million is seen as one of the more successful finance-focused films. Of course, Hollywood has never had much success with movies about banks, brokerages or even financial frauds, and the future of most of the Wall Street-based scripts bouncing around producers’ desks depends on the success of the “Wall Street” sequel - which last week saw its release date pushed back from April to September. In fact, the talk of Hollywood is that there are as many as 40 Madoff scripts with different production companies - each racing, to a degree, to get their Ponzi tale to the big screen first.įor this year, three different Wall Street films are set for release: “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” the sequel to the 1987 Academy Award-winning film “Minkow,” the true story of con artist-turned-FBI informant-turned fraud-buster Barry Minkow and “Crashing Wall Street,” about the 1929 crash. Hollywood’s latest go-round with financial-sector flicks was sparked by the December 2008 arrest of the $65-billion fraudster Bernie Madoff, people familiar with the workings of Tinseltown tell The Post - resulting in several Wall Street dramas in production and some coming to a multiplex near you this year. While Washington still appears to hate Wall Street, Hollywood is starting to flirt with the idea that the crash-and-burn intrigue of Ponzi schemes, billion-dollar bets against the housing market and bank failures will create box-office magic.
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