Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World co-author Tom Wright has confirmed that a movie deal is in the works based on the book on the 1MDB scandal and its alleged mastermind Low Taek Jho.

“We are negotiating a movie deal at the moment, yeah. There should be an announcement very soon about a movie,” he told a group media interview in Kuala Lumpur today.

Wright, who remained tight-lipped about the details, joked that it would not be produced by Red Granite Pictures...