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The meteoric political rise of George Santos and the web of fabulist tales it was built on are getting a movie treatment. HBO Films has optioned the rights to Mark Chiusano’s new book The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos, which was published on November 28, 2023.

The news comes on the heels of Santos’ Washington D.C. career coming to a dramatic end yesterday when he was expelled from Congress for alleged ethics violations, including donor funds spent on racy subscription website OnlyFans and Botox treatments. He has denied the charges and has vowed to fight back.

The film, now in development, is described as a forensic and darkly comic look at the crazy, unprecedented congressional race on Long Island that led to Santos being elected to Congress. It comes from Frank Rich, who executive produced HBO’s Emmy-winning Washington DC satire Veep as well as the network’s Emmy-winning drama Succession.

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[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 47 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If there was any movie that shouldn't be made, it's this one.

[–] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

I dunno, have you heard all the things Santos has done? That's gonna be an exciting movie!

[–] kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago

literally no one asked for this

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Is Max really this desperate for content? I mean if you need a movie for people to watch, how about Batgirl?

[–] Tronn4@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

They better make this movie and can it the hour before its supposed to air for tax purposes.

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I will never understand how they came to the conclusion that distancing themselves from the HBO brand that has been built up over decades was a good idea.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Destroying brands is so 2023.

[–] guacupado@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

America, where pieces of shit become celebrities.

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

They should talk about making it, really hyping it up, then just never actually make it. It would be perfect for their subject.

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago

Dear HBO, just to put it into terms you understand, the chances of me watching this are less than the chances of me rewatching Game of Thrones.

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Serious question - yesterday I watched a long deep dive down into this rabbit hole and - wow. I knew a lot of it already, but I learned some things too.

During his campaign(s), did whoever he was running against do oppo research? Couldn’t this have all been made public much sooner?

[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Apparently his opponent tried, but no one cared enough to actually run it until I guess they ran out of other things to talk about.

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Ahh, okay. That sucks, but thanks!

[–] TubeTalkerX@kbin.social 0 points 11 months ago

Hopefully it’s better than White House Plumbers

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

Not sure about this.