The Panama Papers financial scandal is going to Hollywood.

Streaming service Netflix said this week it had acquired the rights to a book written by two German investigative journalists and was turning it into a feature movie to be produced by John Wells.

US director Steven Soderbergh is also producing a movie about the scandal based on a different book, the upcoming Secrecy World.

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