Apple and A24 are working on a new movie about imprisoned crypto tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried based on The Big Short writer Michael Lewis’s book Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon. Variety reported their arrangement and that Girls creator and star Lena Dunham is set to write the film.
SBF to get the Girls treatment in Going Infinite film adaptation
Lena Dunham is set to write a movie based on Michael Lewis’ book about the rise and fall of Sam Bankman-Fried.
Lena Dunham is set to write a movie based on Michael Lewis’ book about the rise and fall of Sam Bankman-Fried.
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Going Infinite is Lewis’s chronicle of the rise, spectacular implosion, and eventual conviction of Bankman-Fried and his crypto exchange FTX.
Lewis was working on the book already and embedded with Bankman-Fried when FTX collapsed in 2022. SBF was ultimately found guilty of several criminal fraud and conspiracy charges and given a 25-year prison sentence. He’s appealing his conviction, even as his fellow FTX executives are being sentenced and some are beginning prison sentences of their own.
Since Girls, Dunham has most recently written and directed an upcoming Netflix romantic comedy series called Too Much, which is set to premiere in 2025.
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