George Santos will probably be again on-screen quickly.
Not in a livestream from the ground of the Home of Representatives, from which he was expelled final week over his numerous lies—however as an alternative on a silver display screen.
HBO Movies has picked up the rights to The Fabulist: The Mendacity, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos, a e book by Newsday columnist Mark Chiusano that was revealed final week.
The movie will probably be government produced by Frank Wealthy, of Veep and Succession fame, alongside Unhealthy Schooling author Mike Makowsky, in keeping with Selection. Chiusano will function a consulting producer.
“Couldn’t consider a greater group for this,” Chiusano wrote on X.
The film’s logline describes it as a “story of a seemingly minor native race that wound up a battle for the soul of Lengthy Island, and unexpectedly carved the trail for the world’s most well-known (and now disgraced) congressman.”
“The Gatsby-esque journey of a person from nowhere who exploited the system, waged struggle on fact and swindled one of many wealthiest districts within the nation to realize his American Dream,” it learn.
A launch date, director, and solid haven’t been introduced, although social-media hypothesis over who may play the serial fabulist has already run rampant.
A lot of that conjecture has supplied up Nelson Franklin, who starred in Veep and performed Santos on an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Dwell! earlier this yr. In a Vulture interview in January, Franklin mentioned he hadn’t heard Santos communicate till he was supplied the possibility to play the now-disgraced congressman for a section.
“I noticed straight away that, sure, there are very essential elements of our faces which can be virtually precisely the identical,” Franklin mentioned. “If he have been approach higher wanting than me, I’d have been screwed as a result of then it will have been like, ‘Oh, you’re just like the uglier George Santos.’ That might have been the tip of the world.”
