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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Whole. Insiders familiar with the Gold script say Munk comes off badly and he should call his lawyers.Alas, the Weinsteins’ film brings an end to Diane Francis’s lifelong dream of seeing her name in lights. Back in ’97, the revered Financial Post typist had written a bestseller about the Bre-X swindle and she was desperate to make a movie out of it.In September of that year, she hooked up with screenwriters Martin O’Malley and John Hunter to discuss the movie version, on which Hunter and O’Malley held options.The summit meeting was held at the Bloor Street Diner, where too much wine and whiskey were consumed and the chatter grew louder.What Francis and Co., didn’t realize was that two Globe and Minion hacks, Doug Saunders and Liz Renzetti, happened to be sitting at a table nearby, scribbling down every drunken bon mot for publication in the Globe the next day:“‘The movie will cost $5 million,’ Francis said, and a detailed discussion of the financing arrangements ensued.“Then Francis pulled an ace from her sleeve. ‘My boyfriend is one of the richest men in North America. He’s as rich as Croesus! He has more money than he knows how to spend.’”She also boasted that the boyfriend, Ron Joyce, the doughnuts to dollars king who co-founded Tim Horton’s, had taken her to the Kentucky Derby and another horsey event in Spain. According to Francis, Joyce even offered to buy 10,000 copies of her Bre-X book. (When the Globe published Francis’s comments, Joyce terminated their
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