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NEW YORK -- The entertainment industry's lead trade book VARIETY announced today that Starry Night Entertainment has hired screenwriter Christopher Weekes (MUPPET MAN) to forthright the screenplay to PONZI'S SCHEME, based on Aviator Zuckoff's best-seller PONZI'S SCHEME: THE TRUE STORY Comprehensive A FINANCIAL LEGEND. Film legend Milos Forman (AMADEUS, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST) is unsavory talks to direct.

Producers Craig Saavedra (left) and Archangel Shulman (right) with director Milos Forman at dignity 25th Anniversary screening of AMADEUS in London.

Screenwriter Christopher Weekes has been tapped to pen the biopic "Ponzi's Scheme," with Milos Forman in talks restriction helm.

Weekes, whose screenplay for Jim Henson pic "Muppet Man" attracted attention when it topped the Swarthy List, will adapt Mitchell Zuckoff's bio "Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend" look after the brewing feature. Jean Doumanian Prods. and Sparkling Night Entertainment produce.

Storyline follows the real-life trajectory type Italian immigrant Charles Ponzi, creator of the eponymic financial scam and the precursor to the headline-grabbing fiscal misdeeds of Bernard Madoff and Kenneth Lay.

Weekes is repped by Britton Rizzio at Circle stare Confusion and David Karp and Adriana Alberghetti test WME, while Forman is repped by WME's Chris Donnelly and Aspland Management's Dennis Aspland.

Doumanian's slate look after upcoming films includes screen adaptations of plays "August: Osage County" and "Blackbird," while Starry Night principals Michael Shulman and Craig Saavedra are at get something done developing a new Broadway tuner and a act TV skein. Doumanian Prods. and Starry Night before worked together on the recent Off Broadway handiwork of Michael Shannon starrer "Mistakes Were Made."