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How to Finish Your Book When Robert Downey Jr. Already Wants to Star in the Movie

After selling the megastar the rights to produce and star in Chasing Phil, the true story of a charming con man, author David Howard wrestled to complete his book accurately despite "Downey's commanding persona filling the screen inside my head." His story. 

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The Con is Not so Sweet in 'Chasing Phil'

The Con is Not so Sweet in ‘Chasing Phil’

J.J. Wedick and Jack Brennan, two fresh FBI agents, ended up taking on one of the “most charming” con-men Phil Kitzer. With their careers on the line, both agents had to go up against their gut feeling and government bureaucracy to take down a con-man ring bigger than they ever thought. Chasing Phil by David Howard is an incredibly well researched book. the book looks at individual conversations,…

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Review: Chasing Phil by David Howard

Chasing Phil is the story of one of the first major undercover FBI investigations in US history, detailing the crimes, investigation, and prosecution of white collar criminal Philip Kitzer. Starting in the mid ‘70s, Jim Wedick and Jack Brennan embedded themselves in Kitzer’s “fraternity” of con men. Over the next year, the two junior agents followed Kitzer all over the world, listening in on a nearly constant stream of shady deals being made through fraudulent banks.

Some parts of Chasing Phil sound like they’re directly from a movie. Charming con men drinking all day and all night. Mobsters shaking people down for a payment. Phony bank robberies. Elvis Presley’s plane... Kitzer was a larger than life character with a stranger than fiction life than makes for an engrossing read at times. Unfortunately, this level of entertainment is not sustainable. Pages and pages on end of convoluted financial dealings and legal loopholes are about as interesting to read as your last bank statement. Needless to say, I have mixed feelings about the book.

Two things are undeniable. The first is how important this case would prove to be for the FBI and (presumably) other enforcement agencies in the country. Wedick and Brennan began the investigation just as the FBI began to offer training for undercover operations and years before they offered any kind of support for agents returning to their regular lives after an operation. Wedick and Brennan received none of this training. The went undercover using their real names and, while they made an effort to avoid talking about their personal lives in any detail, they remained as close to the truth as they could. They often traveled without informing anyone at the bureau beforehand and relied heavily on their ability to memorize complex details about the illegal activities of their group. With no protocol in place, they had to make it up as the went.

The second is how much work David Howard had to do to make this book as interesting as it was. Even with the quirky characters, the thousands of pages of court testimonies he used as the main source couldn’t have been very exciting. Out of what would have otherwise been impossibly dull material, Howard gives us colorful three-dimensional characters and compelling stories.

I received a copy of this book for free from the publisher in exchange for my honest review.

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Robert Dauni Džunior produciraće film „Chasing Phil“

Projekat je opisan kao mješavina filmova „Wolf of Wall Street“ i „Goodfellas“

WWW – Američki glumac produciraće film zasnovan na istinitom događaju vezanom za Fila Kicera, koji je organizovao prevare pomoću kojih je zaradio nekoliko miliona dolara, prenosi The Hollywood Reporter.

Projekat je opisan kao mješavina filmova „Wolf of Wall Street“ i „Goodfellas“.

Kicer je organizovao biznis mrežu poznatu kao The Fraternity, a film će prikazati kako su dva FBI agenta uspjela da…

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Robert Downey Jr. producirá "Chasing Phil"

El actor estadounidense Robert Downey Jr. y su compañía Team Downey trabajan para producir la adaptación del libro “Chasing Phil: The World’s Greatest Con Man, Two Undercover FBI Agents, and Their Amazing Around The World Adventure”.

El libro escrito por David Howard está basado en la historia real de la primera incursión del FBI en los crímenes de cuello blanco, es decir, robo de obras de arte y demás artículos de lujo. Esta novela sigue a dos jóvenes agentes que se infiltran en el mundo de Phil Kitzer, un carismático maestro de este tipo de crímenes que está detrás del robo de miles de millones de dólares y cuya red de asociados se conoce como “La Fraternidad”.

La película será realizada para Warner Bros. con la intención de que el actor sea también el protagonista.

A través de http://www.argnoticias.com/espectaculos/cine/item/32513-robert-downey-jr-producirá-chasing-phill de ARGNoticias.com

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@RobertDowneyJr Will Produce CHASING PHIL For @wbpictures

@RobertDowneyJr Will Produce CHASING PHIL For @wbpictures

It’s not official yet that Robert Downey Jr. would star in the following project, but THR said that WB has preemptively picked up the screen rights to David Howard’s book proposal,  “Chasing Phil: The World’s Greatest Con Man, Two Undercover FBI Agents, and Their Amazing Around The World Adventure” and they’re setting it up for Robert Downey’s production company to produce this project which has…

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Robert Downey Jr To Produce And Potentially Star In Chasing Phil

Robert Downey Jr To Produce And Will Potentially Star In Chasing Phil

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Robert Downey Jr still has some Marvel movies in the near future, but that is in no way stopping him from taking part of other awesome projects.

The Wrap reports that Warner Bros has preemptively acquired David Howard’s book proposal Chasing Phil: The World’s Greatest Con Man, Two Undercover FBI Agents, And Their Amazing Around The World Adventure, for Team Downey…

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