House Of Cards creator and showrunner Beau Willimon and his Westward producing partner Jordan Tappis have teamed with Crazy Rich Asians’ co-financier SK Global to develop a television series based on Tom Wright and Bradley Hope’s novel Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World.
Tony Award-winning M. Butterfly playwright David Henry Hwang is attached to write the adaptation and executive produce.SK Global and Westward will finance and oversee all stages of development and production.Written by award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters Wright and Hope, Billon Dollar Whale gives an inside account of Malaysia’s shocking 1MDB money-laundering scandal, exposing the secret nexus of elite wealth, banking,
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