Russell Gewirtz is set to pen The King of Oil, an adaptation of the biopic by Daniel Ammann. BB Film Productions picked up the rights to the book a few months ago with Daniel Turcan and Uri Singer attached to produce.
The life of commodities trader and backroom oil dealer, Marc Rich, from his personal life to his indictment for illegally trading oil with Iran during the hostage crisis embargo.
Follows the FBI corruption and the savage New England mob scene involving James “Whitey” Bulger.
Scribe jumps to surging Paradigm.
FBI-Irish Mob drama lands scribe!
Logline: An overworked manager of a luxury building and his staff plan a heist against a rich fraudster living in their building after they lose their pensions to him in a Bernie Madoff-like scam.
Logline: Follows the FBI corruption and the savage New England mob scene involving James “Whitey” Bulger.
Logline: An unorthodox team of police specialists, called the Special Investigations Section, whose mission is to catch major criminals in the act.
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