Deadline reports that HBO has been seeking the right scribe for its movie adaptation since May, when the broadcaster optioned The Wizard Of Lies.

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That's partly due to the film having been shot mostly in Hungary -- it never looks or sounds quite right -- and to disjunctures in Ronald Harwood's adaptation.

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This latest adaptation, by director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Scott Frank, gets it just about right.

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