William Hurt To Star In Curtis Hanson's Financial Crisis Drama 'Too Big To Fail' For HBO

It’s official: the financial crisis is the new Iraq war. With documentaries and features lining up about the collapse of Wall Street, the issue is the latest trend to get projects greenlit around Hollywood.

The latest, “Too Big To Fail,” will find Curtis Hanson (“L.A. Confidential,” “Wonder Boys”) directing William Hurt in “a dissection of the 2008 financial crisis and the power brokers who decided the fate of the world’s economy as the system teetered on collapse.” Hurt will play Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. The film has a script by Peter Gould (“Breaking Bad”) and is based off the book of the same name by New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin.

Hanson has been attached to a couple of projects this year, including a biopic on criminal Bill Anthony Jakob and a film about surfer Jay Moriarty, but with “Too Big To Fail” set to go in front of cameras this fall, those projects will have to go on the backburner for now. [Deadline]