Film
In July 2005, filming began in Puerto Rico and New York on The Hoax, starring Richard Gere as Irving, Alfred Molina as Suskind, and Marcia Gay Harden as Edith. On March 6, 2007, Hyperion reissued Clifford Irving's The Hoax in a movie tie-in edition. The film, directed by Lasse Hallström, opened on April 6, 2007, with a DVD release following on October 16. The majority of reviews were favorable.
Irving decried the film as a distortion of the story and "a hoax about a hoax", citing the film's portrayals of himself, Suskind, and Edith Irving as "absurd even more than inaccurate" and saying that the film added events and scenes that did not occur in real life. As the author of the source book, Irving is credited as a writer for the film.
In spring 2012 the movie rights to Irving's nonfiction book, "Fake!," were optioned by Steve Golin and Anonymous Content LLC, and the author was commissioned to write a first draft screenplay based on the work. English director Malcolm Venville ("Henry's Crime") has signed on to direct.
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