This comes days after the disgraced congressman became the first House member to be expelled in more than 20 years.
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A movie about George Santos is in development at
HBO Films,
The Hollywood Reporter confirmed Saturday.
HBO Films has optioned the rights to Mark Chiusano’s book,
The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos, which was released on Nov. 28.
The film from Frank Rich (HBO’s
Veep and
Succession) is described as a “forensic and darkly comic look” at the unprecedented congressional race in Long Island, New York, that led to Santos being elected to Congress.