Little White Rose Films has
tapped Dougray Scott to topline Gang of One based on Gary
Mulgrew's memoir about his life in prison in the wake of the Enron scandal.
The banner, headed by the
husband-wife team of Tommy Gormley and Sarah Purser, has hired screenwriter
Robert Murphy (Rebus) to adapt.
Mulgrew is one of a trio of
British businessmen -- the NatWest three -- indicted in 2002 on seven counts of
wire fraud and then extradited from the United Kingdom to the United States in
2006. Each pleaded guilty to one count in exchange for the other charges being
dropped.
Mulgrew's memoir, published by
Hodder & Stoughton in the UK earlier this year, tells the story of
Mulgrew's rise from a Glasgow orphanage to his opulent life as a
multi-millionaire banker in London to his eventual fall as a convict in a
gang-infested prison in the middle of Texas.
Gormley will make his directorial
debut. His credits as a first assistant director include "Mission:
Impossible -- Ghost Protocol," "Super 8," and "Star
Trek." Scott, repped by WME, was seen
most recently in "My Week with Marilyn."
Source: Variety
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