Arthur "Art" Williams is an American-born counterfeiter and subject of the book, The Art of Making Money by Jason Kersten. He is most known for having counterfeited the 1996 $100 Bill. He now resides at the Federal Correctional Institution in Big Spring, Texas. His story was featured on NPR's The Diane Rehm Show on June 15, 2009.
Paramount Pictures is in negotiations with director D.J. Caruso (Eagle Eye, Disturbia) and actor Chris Pine (Star Trek) to make The Art of Making Money early next year, says Variety.
Brian Robbins is producing with Sharla Sumpter and Brad Weston. Frank Baldwin wrote the script.
Pine would play Art Williams, the alias for a Chicago man who rose from petty theft to become a master counterfeiter.
Paramount acquired the project based on a 2005 Rolling Stone article by Jason Kersten, who turned his reporting into the book "The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter." Source:Variety October 12, 2009