‘Flatly False’: Wasserman Estate Disputes Claims of Support for Jonah Hill’s ‘The Last Mogul’ (Exclusive)

A new series about the relationship between Hollywood fixer Sidney Korshak and the late McA media titan Lew Wasserman is stirring up some present-day back lot drama, multiple insiders tell Variety.The issue at hand with the recently announced project “The Last Mogul,” which has attached Jonah Hill to star as Korshak and Oscar winning screenwriter William Monahan to adapt, is what sources called a misrepresentation of support from Wasserman’s power-player grandson Casey Wasserman to grease the wheels of a potential sale to a streamer or network.“The Last Mogul” executive producers Allen Shapiro, the former CEO of Dick Clark Productions, and “300” filmmaker Mark Canton have told prospective buyers that the Wasserman family raised no objections to the scripted examination of Lew Wasserman’s friendship with notorious Mafia attorney Korshak, sources told Variety.“The idea that Casey Wasserman somehow endorsed the ‘Last Mogul’ project at any time, to

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