I imagine that when you have a breakout indie hit and you collect Gotham and Indie Spirit award noms by the boatload then you have scripts tossed at you like you were the bench-warming, jockstrap receiving equipment manager for a football team. After being attached to Loudermilk and Turkey in the Straw, Craig Zobel (who we profiled in an interview for Great World of Sound) is still taking offers, and this one is coincidentally about another “con job”.
THR reports that Contrafilm’s Tripp Vinson and Beau Flynn have set Zobel to adapt the project for the big screen. Based on an October 2006 Wired article by Randall Sullivan titled “Gizmondo’s Spectacular Crack-up” about Swedish con artist Bo Stefan Eriksson, who, among other stunts, wrecked a million-dollar Ferrari Enzo going 160 mph on Pacific Coast Highway above Malibu in February 2006. Eriksson previously had launched a hand-held video game company, Gizmondo, that ultimately filed for bankruptcy. Allegedly once a figure in organized crime, he has been in and out of Swedish and U.S. jails for fraud, extortion, auto theft, embezzlement, kidnapping and other charges.
Wired Magazine has the article currently online – you can check it out here.
