Brazil's mega corruption scandal to get movie treatment

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Brazil's gigantic corruption scandal will move from news TV to movie theaters and Netflix next year, when rival directors turn the real-life thriller into entertainment. For two years, Brazilians have watched in fascination and horror as prosecutors unleashed a probe codenamed Operation Car Wash, targeting everyone from an ex-president to super-rich executives with allegations of mass embezzlement at state oil flagship company Petrobras. "Our objective is to make a blockbuster," says director Marcelo Antunez, whose movie, with the working title "Federal Police -- the law applies to all," is scheduled to open in May.

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