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And the Enron Movie is Born
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Sony, Adaptation, Biopics, Drama, Rumors, Upcoming Releases
Sony Pictures has recently acquired the rights to Enron, a stage show written by Lucy Prebble. The production about the bankrupt energy company is currently playing to sold-out audiences at London’s Royal Court Theater. (The show is expected to hit Broadway in April.)
It can be assumed that if Sony’s spending money, they’re going to make the movie. Thanks to Prebble, they’ll have a script. To start production, this just leaves producer, director…and principle roles.
So, who could play chief financial officer Andrew Fastow, or chief exec/chairman Kenneth Lay? And let’s not forget the three potentially meaty female roles - whistleblowers (and Time‘s 2002 Persons of the Year) Cynthia Cooper, Coleen Rowley and Sherron Watkins.
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