EXCLUSIVE: The wild story of crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried and the $32B meltdown of FTX is drawing considerable interest from Hollywood.
Michael Lewis is writing a book that has the likes of Amazon, Netflix, David Fincher, Josh Gad and David Heyman circling, while Scott Burns and Jonathan Glickman’s Panoramic are looking at a potential project with The New York Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin.
Graham Moore, the Oscar-winning writer behind Benedict Cumberbatch film The Imitation Game, has also thrown his hat in the ring.
Moore is set to write and direct an adaptation of New York Magazine’s deep dive into the subject. The magazine cover story, which looks at Bankman-Fried’s rise from an honest crypto guy ready to spend his fortune to save the world, to FTX’s fall into Chapter 11 with him having to sell his property in the Bahamas.
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