Al Pacino wants your money! Okay, he doesn’t really. But he might be wandering around big financial corporations doing a little research for his next project, as he’s just decided that he’ll next star in dodgy-dealing thriller Arbitrage.
The film will find Pacino as a hedge fund mogul who starts to realise that his financial finagling is getting him into some serious trouble. To make matters worse, he’s trying to negotiate a deal to sell his trading empire to a big international bank, and needs to get the company flogged off before anyone discovers the massive fraud he’s been perpetrating.
But then he makes an unexpected – and violent – mistake, leading him to turn to someone unlikely for help.
Eva Green and Susan Sarandon are also in the film, which writer/director Nicholas Jarecki (who last made The Informers) is aiming to shoot early next year in New York. Capote’s producer Michael Ohoven has set up the financing to get it made and is part of the team getting ready to sell the film at the American Film Market.
Oh, and in case you were wondering, “Arbitrage” is, as you could probably guess, a fancy term for “finance”. But we went that extra mile (well, we looked in the dictionary) just for you.