Albert Hughes To Direct Douglas As The 'Art Con'

[Saturday, April 3rd, 2004]
Albert Hughes has signed to direct Art Con, with Michael Douglas as a potential star vehicle for the actor in which he'd play a charming con man who masterminds ambitious art fraud scandals, according to Variety.

Hughes is coming aboard a project based on "Art Con of the Century," an investigative article in the New York Times Magazine written by Peter Landesman about John Drewe, a charismatic con man who in 1986 engaged a free-spirited painter-songwriter named John Myatt to forge paintings by master artists.

Myatt was so good that he routinely fooled respected art experts with his bogus canvases, and Drewe made a fortune brokering 200 fake masterpieces over a nine-year period.

Hughes is best known for pairing with brother Allen to direct such films as Menace II Society, Dead Presidents and From Hell, but the siblings have also begun directing films on their own.

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