Around a year ago, we reported Scott Cooper was in negotiations with Fox Searchlight to write and direct the fascinating fact-based tale of con-man Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, a German-born criminal who assumed the identity as a member of the famous Rockefeller dynasty. No confirmation from the studio – or even Cooper himself – came about the project, based on novel ‘The Man In The Rockefeller Suit’ by Mark Seal, so many assumed the deal was done.
We can now confirm THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES and ON THE ROAD’s Walter Salles will take the directing gig, telling the story of high-roller ‘Clark Rockefeller’, who was able to get an elite job on Wall Street and live amongst the rich and famous for decades, even going on to marry a top-ranking business women. This ultimately become his undoing when he was charged with kidnapping his own daughter and it was later discovered that his ‘real persona’ had been involved in a 1985 murder of a Californian couple.
Source: Variety
