| Title: | The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals |
| Logline: | Ivar Kreuger, an enigmatic Swedish financier, builds a global empire of match monopolies and high-stakes loans while cultivating influence through close relationships with celebrities like Greta Garbo and powerful politicians worldwide. Hit by the Wall Street crash in 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression, his spectacular 1932 downfall exposes a web of deception, and he is later found dead in what is ruled a suicide. His story and downfall lays the groundwork for later financial scandals like Enron and Bernie Madoff. |
| Writer(s): | Frank Partnoy (author) |
| Genre(s): | Crime, Drama, Period |
| Agency: | Theresa Park, Celeste Fine | Park Fine & Brower |
| Companies: | Passage Pictures |
| Additional: | Rights to the book published by PublicAffairs in April 2009. True story. Uri Singer and Orlando John will executive produce. |
