Film & Music Entertainment has hired Julien Temple to direct one of the most curious projects of the season, fake! A film with a budget that amounts to just over fifteen million dollars and is based on the biography of the famous art forger Elmir of Hory and it will begin shooting in the spring in Spain, Croatia and Canada.
Julien Temple has directed films like Story of a passion, Pandaemonium, Glastombury, The Liberty of Norton Folgate, Oil City Confidential y The Great Rock and Roll Swindle among many others, so this is not a newbie, although some of these films have not had excessive media coverage.
Remember that the last movie of Orson Welles, Fraud, He also dealt with the same topic, which indicates that this is not going to be a novelty but it can be quietly in terms of the plot, which promises to be more than interesting, although its premiere may be overshadowed by some superproduction that comes out nearby to the date of the premiere of Fake!
It is a true story about the art of swindling and the risky excesses of Elmyr de Hory, one of the best forgers in the world, who teams up in Miami with Fernand le Gros, a sly character who speaks phrases at breakneck speed and turns out to be a real psychotic. They both hatch a plan, in principle, masterful, and they go from Miami to Paris, later to New York and from there to Ibiza where little by little they make billions of dollars and everything seems to be going well, until everything stops. to go as expected...