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Arriving in our inbox is news about The man who stole Portugal….and yes, it IS a true story based o actual events behind one of the biggest frauds in history.
Who was The man who stole Portugal?
James Nelson Joyce (This City is Ours, A Thousand Blows) stars as Alves Reis, a self-made outsider with a genius for turning a closed door into an opportunity. Shut out and underestimated, Reis is determined to give his wife Maria (Emily Fairn, House of Guinness, The Responder) and their family the life they deserve and, hustle by hustle, he begins to invent his way upwards. From forged credentials to official contracts, his journey takes him via colonial backwaters all the way to the boardrooms of the Bank of Portugal – until his greatest bluff becomes one of the greatest cons in history.
The cast and crew…
James Nelson Joyce stars as the titular anti-hero who almost bought the National Bank of Portugal with its own money, sand co-stars actress Emily Fairn as well as Dominic Cooper and Richard E. Grant (Saltburn, Can You Ever Forgive Me). Production will run through to July in UK, Portugal and South Africa. The cast also includes Joel Fry (Bank of Dave, Our Flag Means Death) as Jose, Herbert Nordrum (The Worst Person in The World, The Royal Hotel) as Karel, Kim Bodnia (F1, Killing Eve) as Adolf, Nia Towle as Fie (Rings of Power, Persuasion) with Richard E. Grant (Saltburn, Can You Ever Forgive Me) as Sir William, and Dominic West (The Crown, The Wire) as Carlos. Directed by BAFTA nominee Thomas Napper (Jawbone, Widow Clicquot), the script is by Richard Galazka, inspired by the titular true crime book by Murray Teigh Bloom.
The production will shoot in the UK, Portugal and South Africa as the story’s sweep moves from the glamour and political turbulence of 1920s Lisbon to colonial Angola and the elite printing houses of London. We can expect The man who stole Portugal to be released in 2027.
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