Netflix Developing an Adaptation of THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE About a Wire Fraud Scheme
Netflix has acquired the rights to Tanya Smith’s upcoming memoir, The Ghost in the Machine, and they will adapt it into a feature film. Issa Rae (Insecure), and David Heyman (Once Upon a Time In Hollywood ) are attached to produce.
The memoir tells Smith’s unbelievable true story of how “a middle-class black girl from the North Side of Minneapolis would, in the words of the FBI, become one of the single biggest threats to the entire United States banking system.” It chronicles her “rise and fall and shares how she finally came to terms with her past and rebuilt her life.”
The story for the film will follow Smith’s extraordinary story of “creating a sophisticated wire fraud scheme and outwitting the FBI and prosecutors, who underestimated her intelligence for years, before her life ultimately fell apart, leading to two prison escapes and finally serving 13 years of a 24-year sentence – at the time, the longest sentence handed down to any white-collar criminal.”
That certainly sounds like a fascinating story that will make for a good film! This is the kind of movie that I’d enjoy watching. I like these kinds of crazy true crime stories!
Source: Deadline