HBO Gets Too Big to Fail

HBO wants to make a movie about the financial collapse, and now they’ve bought the rights to Times reporter Andrew

HBO wants to make a movie about the financial collapse, and now they’ve bought the rights to Times reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Too Big to Fail, reports Deadline New York.

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Sorkin says that the book has plenty of premium cable potential.

“You see their human sides, the hubris, the ego,” he told Deadline. “You see Hank Paulson literally vomiting and Dick Fuld crying with his wife as their world fell apart.”

[Via NYM]

 

HBO Gets Too Big to Fail