EXCLUSIVE: Producer Doug Belgrad, director-producer Rod Lurie, and writer Scott Conroy have teamed up for an untitled film based on the true story of how independent journalist and blogger Clare Rewcastle Brown blew the lid off of the Malaysian 1MDB financial swindle, which became one of the biggest public corruption scandals in history.Conroy has adapted the screenplay from Brown’s book The Sarawak Report.
Lurie, the former journalist/critic who last helmed The Outpost, will direct the film, and will also produce alongside Belgrad and his Sony-based, 2.0 Entertainment production banner.
Sony will get first look at the project.The 1MDB scandal involves the fleecing of billions of dollars of Malaysian taxpayer money, a big chunk of which has
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