The “Women” creator is popping a really controversial boy’s life story into a movie.
Lena Dunham is about to carry the rise and fall of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to the display for an upcoming Apple Unique movie in partnership with A24. Dunham will adapt the screenplay from Michael Lewis’ New York Occasions bestselling e book, “Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon.”
Lewis’ previous books “Moneyball” and “The Massive Quick” had been additionally beforehand tailored to the display. The official description of “Going Infinite” reads: “The e book tells the story of FTX’s spectacular collapse and the enigmatic founder at its middle. When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world’s youngest billionaire and crypto’s Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small nations all vied for his time and money after he catapulted, virtually in a single day, onto the Forbes billionaire checklist. Who was this rumpled man in cargo shorts and limp white socks, whose eyes twitched throughout Zoom conferences as he performed video video games on the facet? Lewis units out to reply this query, taking readers into the thoughts of Bankman-Fried, whose rise and fall provides an training in high-frequency buying and selling, cryptocurrencies, philanthropy, chapter, and the justice system. Each psychological portrait and monetary roller-coaster experience, Going Infinite is Michael Lewis on the high of his recreation, tracing the mind-bending trajectory of a personality who by no means appreciated the foundations and was allowed to stay by his personal―till all of it got here undone.”
The e book was launched in October 2023. Its movie challenge can be co-produced and co-developed by Apple Studios and A24.
FTX was based in 2019 and have become one of many greatest cryptocurrency change platforms. Nonetheless, simply three years later in 2022, Bankman-Fried was indicted and convicted of costs of fraud and cash laundering after billions of {dollars} of funds had been found to be lacking.
This isn’t Dunham’s first challenge that touched on the monetary world, because the Golden Globe winner and Emmy nominee directed the pilot of “Business.” Dunham can also be writing and directing Netflix rom-com sequence “Too A lot” starring Megan Stalter and Will Sharpe, which is impressed by Dunham’s real-life romance together with her musician husband Luis Felber, with whom she co-created the sequence. She has a college-centric spy sequence within the works at Netflix, too.
Dunham additionally not too long ago cowrote and directed two 2022 movies, “Catherine Referred to as Birdy” and “Sharp Stick.” She moreover introduced that she is going to now not be directing the “Polly Pocket” movie for Mattel.
Dunham is repped by CAA, ID PR and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox.
“Going Infinite” is the most recent movie collaboration between Apple Unique Movies and A24. Different titles embrace the upcoming Spike Lee-Denzel Washington movie “Excessive and Low” and Jennifer Lawrence homicide thriller, “The Wives.” Previous collaborations embrace “Sharper,” “On The Rocks,” “Underrated: Stephen Curry,” and “Sunny.”