We’re not sure when Alex Gibney stops working, but we’re glad he doesn’t. This year alone he has “Casino Jack And The United States Of Money” (about disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff) hitting theaters on May 7th; a segment in the omnibus documentary “Freakonomics” that will close out the forthcoming Tribeca Film Festival and most likely hit theaters later this year and a third film, “My Trip To Al-Qaeda” already in the can. You would think the guy would take a break.
But the director/documentarian is hard at work on another film, this one about disgraced New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. Working with Fortune magazine editor-at-large Peter Elkind, who was written a book on the scandal, the film scores a major coup by earning the participation of the ex-governor himself.
In the clip below, Cecil Swal the former CEO of the President’s Club escort service that Spitzer frequented, talked about the governor’s paranoia when he booked his “appointments.” That is followed up by a brief segment with Spitzer himself who compares his risk of using the service near the height of his political career to that of Icarus who flew too close to the sun. It’s undeniably compelling stuff.
Attendees of the Tribeca Film Festival will get their first look at the film at a work-in-progress screening on April 24th.
