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Robert De Niro to star as disgraced financier Bernie Madoff
Robert De Niro is to play disgraced financier Bernie Madoff in an HBO movie he will produce, according to reports. Laurie Sandell's book, Truth and Consequences: Life Inside the Madoff Family, will be used as source material, The Hollywood Reporter says. Diane Henrique's best seller, The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust, will also be used. Madoff is in prison for fraud in the US after conning £41bn from thousands of investors. The film will be written by John Burnham Schwartz, who wrote the novel Reservation Road, which was turned into a film in 2007 starring Joaquin Phoenix. Sandell's book ... (full story)
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