Lucy Prebble Set to Adapt Her Hit Play Enron for the Big Screen

Playwright Lucy Prebble is having a very good week. First, it was announced that her play Enron would transfer to the West End’s Noel Coward Theatre in January with a spring Broadway bow in the works. Now comes word that the scribe has inked a “high six-figure” deal with Columbia Pictures to bring the drama to the big screen, according to Variety.

Prebble is on board to write the film adaptation of her play. She has previously adapted The Sugar Syndrome and The Secret Diary of a Call Girl for television. Laura Ziskin will produce the movie.

Based on real-life events and using music, dance and video, Enron is a theatrical take on one of the most infamous scandals in financial history, reviewing the tumultuous 1990s and casting a new light on the financial turmoil in which the world currently finds itself.

The play, directed by Rupert Goold, debuted at the Chichester Festival. Starring Samuel West as Jeffrey Skilling, the former CFO of the Enron Corporation, Enron is in the midst of a sold-out engagement at the Royal Court Theatre in London.