Matthew McConaughey
has become attached to star in Sony Pictures Entertainment upcoming adaptation
of author Benjamin Wallace's New York Times bestseller book, The Billionaire's
Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine, which
focuses on the true story of a scandal surrounding a number of fake bottles of
wine supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson.
The Billionaire's
Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine tells the
true story of a 1787 Château Lafite Bordeaux—supposedly owned by Thomas
Jefferson—that sold for $156,000 at auction and of the eccentrics whose lives
intersected with it. Was it truly entombed in a Paris cellar for two hundred
years? Or did it come from a secret Nazi bunker? Or from the moldy basement of
a devilishly brilliant con artist? As Benjamin Wallace unravels the mystery, we
meet a gallery of intriguing players—from the bicycle-riding British auctioneer
who speaks of wines as if they are women to the obsessive wine collector who
discovered the bottle. Suspenseful and thrillingly strange, this is the vintage
tale of what could be the most elaborate con since the Hitler diaries.
According
to Deadline, Michael Brandt, and Derek Haas have penned the script for the
project, which still doesn't have a director attached to it despite being in
development for a number of years at Escape Artists, and Overbrook
Entertainment.
Source
- Deadline
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