The producers of The Bodhi Tree have optioned two novels by Paul Conroy as the basis for the film based on the true-life story of Max Green, a Melbourne tax lawyer who embezzled millions of dollars and laundered some of the money by buying gems.
Green was found murdered in his hotel room during a one-night stopover in Cambodia in 1998.
Robert Lewis Galinsky is writing the screenplay and serving as executive producer, collaborating with actors-turned- producers Mirko and Amanda Grillini.
An A-list Australian director has read the treatment and is awaiting the script which is due to be delivered early in 2015, Galinsky tells If.
The primary source material is Conroy.s novels Lawyers, Gems and Money and 10 Months in Laos. The latter deals with Australian couple Kerry and Kay Danes, who in 2000 were arrested and accused of stealing gems and cash from a gem mining company in the Laos capital of Vientiane,...
Green was found murdered in his hotel room during a one-night stopover in Cambodia in 1998.
Robert Lewis Galinsky is writing the screenplay and serving as executive producer, collaborating with actors-turned- producers Mirko and Amanda Grillini.
An A-list Australian director has read the treatment and is awaiting the script which is due to be delivered early in 2015, Galinsky tells If.
The primary source material is Conroy.s novels Lawyers, Gems and Money and 10 Months in Laos. The latter deals with Australian couple Kerry and Kay Danes, who in 2000 were arrested and accused of stealing gems and cash from a gem mining company in the Laos capital of Vientiane,...
- 11/9/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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