Julia Garner and Anthony Boyle to Star in Netflix’s Wild Ride Through the FTX Collapse
Netflix is diving into one of the biggest financial implosions of the decade with The Altruists, the upcoming limited series based on the infamous collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, and it’s landed two sharp leads with Julia Garner and Anthony Boyle.
The series is going to take us on a twisted, high-stakes journey through the crypto jungle, and it sounds unmissable.
Garner will play Caroline Ellison, while Boyle steps into the role of Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of FTX. The series follows “Sam Bankman-Fried and his girlfriend, Caroline Ellison, two hyper-smart, ambitious young idealists who tried to remake the global financial system in the blink of an eye – and then seduced, coaxed, and teased each other into stealing $8 billion.”
The series is described as the wild romance of Gen Z’s own Bonnie and Clyde.
Graham Moore (The Imitation Game, The Outfit) and Jacqueline Hoyt (The Underground Railroad, Dietland) will co-showrun and executive produce the series. James Ponsoldt (The Spectacular Now, Daisy Jones & The Six) is on board to direct the pilot and executive produce.
This is also a Higher Ground Productions project, with Michelle and Barack Obama’s production company teaming up with New York Magazine/Vox Media Studios, plus producers Vinnie Malhotra, Jessie Dicovitsky, Tonia Davis, Lauren Morelli, and Julia Garner herself.
The series is titled The Altruists, and that name alone has a dose of irony sharp enough to cut through the blockchain. These aren’t just financial whiz kids, they’re portrayed as cultish visionaries, seducing each other with idealism and dragging everyone else down in a mess of fraud, fantasy, and financial free fall.
This isn’t the first FTX-inspired project to pop up, but with this cast, this team, and the full Netflix muscle behind it, The Altruists is shaping up to be the definitive dramatization of the Sam Bankman-Fried saga.
It’s part cautionary tale, part psychological thriller, and possibly the most romanticized $8 billion scam you’ll ever watch.
So if you’re into morally complicated tech disasters, millennial ambition run amok, this is one to put on your radar.
Source: Deadline