SBF to get the Girls treatment in Going Infinite film adaptation

Nov 13, 2024 05:21 AM - 3 weeks ago 33426

Lena Dunham is group to constitute a movie based connected Michael Lewis’ book astir the emergence and autumn of Sam Bankman-Fried.

By Wes Davis, a play editor who covers the latest successful tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and much arsenic a tech journalist since 2020.

Nov 12, 2024, 10:21 PM UTC

Sam Bankman-Fried is shown against a inheritance of red

Apple and A24 are moving connected a caller movie astir imprisoned crypto tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried based connected The Big Short writer Michael Lewis's book Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon. Variety reported their statement and that Girls creator and prima Lena Dunham is group to constitute the film.

Going Infinite is Lewis’s chronicle of the rise, spectacular implosion, and eventual condemnation of Bankman-Fried and his crypto speech FTX.

Lewis was moving connected the book already and embedded pinch Bankman-Fried erstwhile FTX collapsed successful 2022. SBF was yet recovered blameworthy of respective criminal fraud and conspiracy charges and fixed a 25-year situation sentence. He’s appealing his conviction, moreover arsenic his chap FTX executives are being sentenced and immoderate are beginning situation sentences of their own.

Since Girls, Dunham has astir precocious written and directed an upcoming Netflix romanticist drama bid called Too Much, which is group to premiere successful 2025.