Forget the bloody shootout that destroys New York's Guggenheim Museum. The really chilling moment in The International, Columbia Pictures' film about evil bankers, is when an arms-dealing customer declares that banks exist "to make us all slaves to debt." If that doesn't resonate with audiences, there's the movie's marketing tagline: "Everybody pays." Loosely based on the 1991 arms-trafficking scandal at the Bank of Credit & Commerce International, the film was planned well before the financial crisis, says producer Richard Suckle. But he thinks "the fact that money and economics are in the press" will help engage viewers. Other films in the works (table) may also capitalize on the Zeitgeist.
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