Trader Nick Leeson’s Story Set for TV Adaptation From ‘The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe’ Producer Story Films (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNaman Ramachandran A drama exploring the collapse of Barings Bank and the man at the center of the scandal, trader Nick Leeson, is in the works at All3Media-backed Story Films.The four-part drama “The Man Who Broke The Bank” (working title) for an as yet unnamed major U.K.
broadcaster, charts the meteoric rise and fall of the plasterer’s son from Watford who secretly hid losses of more than £800 million (then $1.4 billion) in the early to mid-1990s in Singapore, leading to the collapse of one of Britain’s oldest merchant banks.
It is based on research from multiple books and archive and archive and first person accounts, including recent dialogue with Leeson himself, by BAFTA winning writer Tony Marchant (“The Mark of Cain,” “Holding On”).
Story Films’ recent true life dramas include recent acclaimed series “The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe” for ITV, which dramatized the story of infamous conman John Darwin, and “Deceit” for Channel 4, based on the case of the murder of Rachel Nickell.
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