The real world impacts of FTX's crash have yet to fully settle, but Amazon is moving forward with a series about the bankrupt exchange and its notorious former CEO Sam Bankman- Fried.
The brothers are said to be considering directing multiple episodes of the show. According to Variety, Dave Weil, co- creator of Invasion, has been tapped by Amazon to executive produce an eight episode series about how Bankman-Fried co-founded FTX and went on to lead the company to a liquidity crisis that eventually resulted in his being ousted. While no casting announcements have been made yet, it is said that Amazon is interested in a number of actors who worked with the Russos during their time as directors of the movies.
It is not clear what the story will be about.
The Gray Man starring Chris Evans, Apple TV Plus' Cherry starring Tom Holland, and The Daniels' Everything Everywhere All at Once are just a few of the smaller projects the Russos have focused on. A drama about a group of young people riding the train right up to and over the edge of a cliff sounds very much like the sort of project that AGbo might be into, but it isn't immediately clear what the Russos are best known for.
In a statement about the series, Amazon Studios CEO Jen Salke said that the mess at FTX is ripe for dramatization.
The future of modern finance is one of many sectors that it crosses. There is a mysterious figure at the center of it all. We would like to understand why.
According to Variety, specific details for the show's story are beingsourced from "'insider reporting' by a number of journalists," but Amazon has not disclosed which journalists or newsrooms it's pulling from. Amazon is planning to start production on the series in the spring of 2015, according to reports.
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