Selection experiences that Anthony Boyle (Tetris, Manhunt) and Julia Garner (Ozark, The Improbable 4: First Steps) have been solid in Netflix’s upcoming drama collection, The Altruists, as Bankman-Fried and Ellison. Government produced by Graham Moore and Jacqueline Hoyt (who will even showrun the collection), The Altruists will recount how Bankman-Fried, FTX’s former CEO, and Ellison, the previous head of FTX’s sister cryptocurrency buying and selling agency, Alameda Analysis, enriched themselves by defrauding FTX’s buyers. Netflix has ordered eight episodes for the collection, and James Ponsoldt (Shrinking, Operating Level) is hooked up to direct the premiere.
Netflix describes the collection as being about “two hyper-smart, formidable younger idealists who tried to remake the worldwide monetary system within the blink of an eye fixed — after which seduced, coaxed, and teased one another into stealing $8 billion,” which sounds correct, if a bit aggrandizing. Presumably, the present will cowl how each Bankman-Fried and Ellison finally plead responsible, and wound up being sentenced to 25 and a couple of years in jail, respectively. And if The Altruists actually needs to be seen as a critical, considerate piece of storytelling that isn’t simply mythologizing its central felons, it ought to in all probability contact on how laborious Bankman-Fried is now pushing for Donald Trump to present him a pardon.
(Disclosure: The Altruists is a co-production behind Greater Floor Productions and New York Journal/Vox Media Studios.)
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