HBO Films has optioned the rights to develop a film adaptation of author Mark Chiusano’s recently published The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos to premiere on the network whenever they can bang it out, Deadline reports.
Of all the good television HBO puts out, their based on a true story movies are probably the most underrated product. Recount, Too Big To Fail, Paterno, and The Wizard of Lies are classics that didn’t get nearly as much fanfare as the big name series like Game of Thrones, The Leftovers, Succession, and others. Which is to say it’s hard to see them somehow fucking this up.