Hot on the heels of the newly published insider memoir on Bernie Madoff’s downfall comes news that HBO’s planned movie on the disgraced financier is going ahead. Deadline Hollywood reports that HBO has finally found itself a screenwriter for an adaptation of New York Times financial writer Diane Henriques’ bestselling account of the jailed investor’s fraud, The Wizard Of Lies: Bernie Madoff And The Death Of Trust. John Burnham Schwartz, author and screenwriter of the acclaimed Reservation Road, will adapt Henriques’ book for TV. Read more on Forbes here.
