Variety experiences that Anthony Boyle (Tetris, Manhunt) and Julia Garner (Ozark, The Fantastic Four: First Steps) have been forged in Netflix’s upcoming drama collection, The Altruists, as Bankman-Fried and Ellison. Executive produced by Graham Moore and Jacqueline Hoyt (who can even showrun the collection), The Altruists will recount how Bankman-Fried, FTX’s former CEO, and Ellison, the previous head of FTX’s sister cryptocurrency buying and selling agency, Alameda Research, enriched themselves by defrauding FTX’s traders. Netflix has ordered eight episodes for the collection, and James Ponsoldt (Shrinking, Running Point) is connected to direct the premiere.
Netflix describes the collection as being about “two hyper-smart, bold younger idealists who tried to remake the worldwide monetary system within the blink of an eye fixed — after which seduced, coaxed, and teased one another into stealing $8 billion,” which sounds correct, if a bit aggrandizing. Presumably, the present will cowl how each Bankman-Fried and Ellison finally plead responsible, and wound up being sentenced to 25 and a pair of years in jail, respectively. And if The Altruists actually needs to be seen as a severe, considerate piece of storytelling that isn’t simply mythologizing its central felons, it ought to most likely contact on how arduous Bankman-Fried is now pushing for Donald Trump to offer him a pardon.
(Disclosure: The Altruists is a co-production behind Higher Ground Productions and New York Magazine/Vox Media Studios.)
