This is familiar territory for Garner, who previously played a different sort of scammer in Netflix’s Inventing Anna. It also brings her back to the streamer where she previously earned three Emmys playing Ruth Langmore in Ozark. This will be Boyle’s first foray into the modern swindler genre. In addition to Say Nothing, he also previously starred in Manhunt, Masters Of The Air, The Plot Against America, Tetris, and Tolkien. He’ll next appear in Steven Knight’s House Of Guinness.
If you somehow managed to avoid this whole mess when it happened, Bankman-Fried founded the cryptocurrency firm FTX in 2019, which quickly grew to become one of the best known crypto exchanges in the world. (Ellison served as CEO of affiliate crypto film, Alameda Research.) Things started crashing down in 2022, when investors discovered that there was a lot less money in the coffers than initially reported. Both Bankman-Fried and Ellison were eventually tried and convicted of several charges, including wire, securities, and commodities fraud, as well as money laundering. Bankman-Fried was specifically ordered to forfeit $11 billion, and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
If you’re getting déjà vu, it’s not just because there are a lot of other crypto scammers out there in the world right now. Lena Dunham is currently working on a Sam Bankman-Fried movie for A24, and Prime Video ordered a limited series from the Russo brothers’ AGBO and writer David Weil that has yet to come to fruition. Fortune Magazine and Mark Wahlberg’s Unrealistic Ideas have also teamed for a documentary on the subject, per The Hollywood Reporter. If anything, all these cautionary tales will hopefully inspire people to avoid similar scams in the future.