Billionaire Boys Club (2017 film)

Billionaire Boys Club is an upcoming American biographical crime-drama film directed by James Cox and co-written with Captain Mauzner. The film stars Ansel Elgort, Taron Egerton, Kevin Spacey, Cary Elwes, Emma Roberts, Suki Waterhouse, Judd Nelson and Billie Lourd. Principal photography began on December 7, 2015 in New Orleans.

It is based on the real-life Billionaire Boys Club active in Southern California during the 1980s.

The film is set in the early 1980s and follows a group of wealthy boys in Los Angeles who set up a get-rich-quick scam that leads to deadly consequences for them and others around them.

On May 13, 2010, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that James Cox would next direct a crime thriller film Billionaire Boys Club, the true story of a group of rich young boys in Los Angeles during the early 1980s who started the Billionaire Boys Club to run a Ponzi scheme. Cox wrote the script in four months after an exclusive research of the events with his brother Stephen, who spent another four months on it. Cox gathered the material for the screenplay from court documents, oral transcripts, and published articles. He said, "as we were writing this, I thought, 'What if 'Wall Street' became 'Alpha Dog' halfway through?" Holly Wiersma would produce the film.

On October 29, 2015, Ansel Elgort and Taron Egerton joined the film's cast, with Elgort playing Joe Hunt, the group leader and financial expert, and Egerton playing Dean Karny, a pro tennis player. Captain Mauzner also co-wrote the script along with Cox, while producers on the film would be Wiersma and Cassian Elwes. The film would be financed by Armory Films, and Good Universe would handle the international sales.