DJ Caruso Is MAKING MONEY With Chris Pine

Chris Pine was excellent as the younger Cpt James T Kirk in J.J. Abrams‘ prequel STAR TREK, Kevin Smith praised his performance by calling it ‘effortless’. I know that Pine is probably gonna get stuck playing Kirk for a while now for many more STAR TREK movies in the near future but I think if he keeps playing other gigs in between, especially collaborating with challenging actors and visionary filmmakers, he can develop his skills some more and become a great actor, he could be the next Tom Cruise, some people think Zac Efron would be that guy but I’d like to believe Pine is more worthy.

According to Variety, Chris Pine and director D.J. Caruso (Eagle Eye, Disturbia) will work together on the project THE ART OF MAKING MONEY, a fact-based drama based on a 2005 Rolling Stone article that became the book titled The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter by Jason Kersten, published last summer by Gotham, it was bought by Paramount Pictures

The movie will produced by Brian Robbins with Sharla Sumpter and Brad Weston. The script was written by Frank Baldwin. If all goes well, Pine will play Art Williams, who rose from petty theft to become a master counterfeiter. Production will start early next year.

Here’s the official synopsis of the book…
The true story of a brilliant counterfeiter who “made” millions, outwitted the Secret Service, and was finally undone when he went in search of the one thing his forged money couldn’t buy him: family.
Art Williams spent his boyhood in a comfortable middle-class existence in 1970s Chicago, but his idyll was shattered when, in short order, his father abandoned the family, his bipolar mother lost her wits, and Williams found himself living in one of Chicago’s worst housing projects. He took to crime almost immediately, starting with petty theft before graduating to robbing drug dealers. Eventually a man nicknamed “DaVinci” taught him the centuries-old art of counterfeiting. After a stint in jail, Williams emerged to discover that the Treasury Department had issued the most secure hundred-dollar bill ever created: the 1996 New Note. Williams spent months trying to defeat various security features before arriving at a bill so perfect that even law enforcement had difficulty distinguishing it from the real thing. Williams went on to print millions in counterfeit bills, selling them to criminal organizations and using them to fund cross-country spending sprees. Still unsatisfied, he went off in search of his long-lost father, setting in motion a chain of betrayals that would be his undoing.
In “The Art of Making Money,” journalist Jason Kersten details how Williams painstakingly defeated the anti-forging features of the New Note, how Williams and his partner-in-crime wife converted fake bills into legitimate tender at shopping malls all over America, and how they stayed one step ahead of the Secret Service until trusting the wrong person brought them all down. A compulsively readable story of how having it all is never enough, “The Art of Making Money” is a stirring portrait of the rise and inevitable fall of a modern-day criminal mastermind.