Will Ferrell is attached to star as the late Chuck Blazer, the flamboyant American FIFA executive in “American Huckster” at HBO Films.
Blazer was a Queens-born son of a stationery store owner who climbed to the top of the international world of soccer, joining the FIFA Executive Committee and using his power committed a bunch of fiduciary crimes.
Trying to get out of potential charges, he agreed to wear a wire for the FBI and the IRS to bring down his soon-to-be former associates.
Leslye Headland (“Russian Doll,” “Terriers”) is planning to direct and is rewriting Robert Siegel’s previous draft based on Mary Papenfuss & Teri Thompson’s novel.
Source: Vulture
