Source: Hollywood Reporter

DreamWorks has optioned the rights to Ben Mezrich's Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

"Ugly Americans" tells the true story of John Malcolm, who in the mid-1990s, as a Princeton graduate, took a job offer to be an arbitrage trader for a couple of expatriates in Japan. There, Malcolm and his co-workers went from rags to riches and created the American Dream half a world away until run-ins with the Yakuza and governmental agents sent Malcolm on the run for his life.

Kevin Spacey's Trigger Street Prods. is set to produce while Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan will adapt the material.

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