Director David O. Russell Confirmed to Helm a Buddy Cianci Biopic

After stepping away from the video game adaptation of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, director David O. Russell has spent his time with an adaptation of The Silver Linings Playbook with Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, and he just recently has been reported to direct American Bullshit, the true story of Abscam, the FBI’s 1980 undercover sting operation of Congress to root out corruption which was the brainchild of the world’s greatest con man. Now yet another project has been confirmed for the filmmaker’s future as 24 Frames reports he’s officially involved in a biopic about Rhode Island mayor Buddy Cianci. We heard that Russell was circling the project over a year ago when Tribeca Film Festival co-founder and producer Jane Rosenthal (Meet the Parents) had started talking about the project. She said, “Going back almost twelve years now, I’ve wanted to see Buddy’s story as a movie.” She even talked about including …