Credit: Variety
Warner Bros. is looking to turn Kurt Eichenwald’s Conspiracy of Fools, a story of Enron’s collapse, into a feature-length film.
Variety reports that WB is looking at Leonardo DiCaprio to star and produce. Once the book rights are finalized, Sheldon Turner (The Longest Yard) will write the script.
Considering DiCaprio’s stellar work in both The Departed and Blood Diamond – both of which were Warner Bros. productions – the studio is still banking on the star.
In Conspiracy of Fools, DiCaprio will play a newcomer to the Houston-based energy company who slowly peels back the layers to expose the campaign of greed and fraudulent accounting that drove Enron into bankruptcy in 2001.
The scandal was previously chronicled in the 2005 docu Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, based on the book by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind.
