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Apple and A24 are developing a Sam Bankman-Fried movie written by Lena Dunham


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Apple and A24 are developing a Sam Bankman-Fried movie written by Lena Dunham

Apple and art house film company A24 are in early development on a film about convicted crypto scammer Sam Bankman-Fried with a script written by Lena Dunham,

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reported. The project will be based on the Michael Lewis book Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon that many critics found
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to Bankman-Fried.

The book describes the dizzying rise and equally vertiginous fall of Bankman-Fried and his FTX crypto exchange and Alameda hedge fund. However, it paints the FTX founder as a benevolent prodigy and glosses over the fact that he embezzled billions of dollars from customers and spent it on things like celebrity endorsements, political donations and high-end real-estate purchases.

FTX was worth billions at its peak, but the exchange eventually collapsed and Bankman-Fried was convicted of ****** and sentenced to 25 years in prison. Most FTX customers will

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, plus interest, but that’s based on a bitcoin price of around $17,000 — and the current price is nearly five times that.

Basing the film on Lewis’s

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isn’t a promising start. Hopefully, Dunham or other writers will also draw on far better books (like
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by Zeke Faux) that show the dark, scammy side of crypto promoters like Bankman-Fried and the entire industry in general.

Apple Original Films and A24 have announced other collaborations recently, including the Spike Lee and Denzel Washington film

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. Other scripted FTX projects are also in the works, including a limited
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Prime series from the Russo brothers based on the 2022 FTX collapse.

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