Nick Cassavetes is attached to write and direct "Bombing Harvey," a fact-based drama about a millionaire who tried to cover his gambling losses by planting a bomb and extorting $3 million from a Lake Tahoe casino reports Variety.
The 1980 incident ended when authorities detonated the device and destroyed Harvey's Resort Hotel. The bomber was John Birges, a Hungarian scientist who came to the U.S. and became a major landscape contractor in California.
Birges was caught after being turned in by his son who helped his father get hundreds of sticks of dynamite to build the bomb but ultimately called the FBI after discovering his father had enlisted his younger brother in a plan to bomb Bank of America, which was foreclosing on the family ranch.
Cassavetes, who just completed "Alpha Dog," is set to next direct his scripted adaptation of the Boston Teran novel "God Is a Bullet".
