Sony to turn Enron play into movie


By Jay A. Fernandez Jay A. Fernandez
22 September 2009 @ 10:01 am EDT

Sony has purchased the film rights to playwright Lucy Prebble's "Enron," currently being staged in a sold-out run at London's Royal Court Theater. A Broadway move is being planned for April.

Like the play, the film will offer an inside look at the most notorious scandal in modern corporate history. Prebble will handle the screen adaptation herself.

Filmmaker Alex Gibney made the Oscar-nominated documentary "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" in 2005. And Warner Bros. has been developing an Enron movie for years, adapted by Sheldon Turner from the nonfiction book "Conspiracy of Fools" by Kurt Eichenwald ("The Informant").

Prebble, who wrote the Showtime series "Secret Diary of a Call Girl," is also the author of the play "The Sugar Syndrome."

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