The life of disgraced media tycoon Ian Robert Maxwell is to be turned into a Hollywood movie reports the UK's Teletext news service.
Producer Edward R Pressman, whose films include Wall Street and American Psycho, is to adapt the stage play about Maxwell, Lies Have Been Told. Pressman said: "Maxwell's story is Citizen Kane meets Wall Street." Producer Dale Djerassi is in London to meet directors and screenwriters.
The British media proprietor, rose from poverty to build a large publishing empire. After his mysterious death in 1991, it was revealed that he had been stealing from staff pension funds on a massive scale to prop up his ailing empire.
