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Billionaire Boys Club
Director: James Cox (“Wonderland,” “Highway”)
Cast: Ansel Elgort, Taron Egerton, Kevin Spacey, Cary Elwes
Details: One of two projects this year left in question due to the downfall of Kevin Spacey, director James Cox spent many months researching and writing this film based on court documents, oral transcripts, and published articles for a film he describes as: “What if ‘Wall Street’ became ‘Alpha Dog’ halfway through?”
The true story tale follows a group of rich young boys in Los Angeles during the early 1980s who started the Billionaire Boys Club to run a Ponzi scheme – leading to deadly consequences for those around them. “Baby Driver” and “Kingsman” alum Ansel Elgort and Taron Egerton lead a cast that includes Cary Elwes as Andy Warhol along with Jeremy Irvine, Emma Roberts, Billie Lourd, Judd Nelson (playing the father of the character he played in the 1987 mini-series), Bokeem Woodbine, and Rosanna Arquette. Shot two years ago, its fate already looked uncertain pre-Spacey. Now? Who knows.