Amazon’s already greenlit an FTX miniseries

Anthony and Joe Russo’s AGBO manufacturing firm is hooked up to provide the present, and the brothers are reportedly contemplating approaching to direct a number of episodes. Selection reviews that Amazon has tapped Invasion co-creator Dave Weil to govt produce the presently unnamed eight episode miniseries that particulars how Bankman-Fried co-founded FTX, and went on to guide the corporate to a liquidity disaster that in the end resulted in his being ousted. Whereas no showrunners or casting bulletins have been made but, Amazon is claimed to be eyeing quite a lot of actors the Russos labored with throughout their stint directing Marvel’s blockbusters like Avengers: Infinity Struggle.

Within the years since Avengers: Endgame’s 2019 launch, the Russos have largely targeted on comparatively smaller initiatives at AGBO like Netflix’s The Grey Man starring Chris Evans, Apple TV Plus’ Cherry starring Tom Holland, and The Daniels’ All the things In all places All at As soon as. A drama a couple of group of younger folks driving the crypto prepare proper as much as and over the sting of a cliff sounds very very similar to the form of challenge that AGBO may be into, however it isn’t instantly clear what the Russos — who’re finest identified for his or her motion and superhero motion pictures — may carry to this story.

In an announcement in regards to the sequence, Amazon Studios CEO Jennifer Salke known as Weil and the Russos the best companions “to carry this multifaceted story to our international Prime Video viewers,” and the Russos remarked on how the mess at FTX is ripe for dramatization.

“It crosses many sectors—movie star, politics, academia, tech, criminality, intercourse, medication, and the way forward for fashionable finance,” the Russos mentioned. “On the middle of all of it sits a particularly mysterious determine with advanced and doubtlessly harmful motivations. We wish to perceive why.”

Based on Selection, particular particulars for the present’s story are being sourced from “‘insider reporting’ by quite a lot of journalists,” however Amazon has not disclosed which journalists or newsrooms it’s pulling from. Whereas are presently no different particulars in regards to the upcoming sequence, Amazon is reportedly aiming to kick off manufacturing a while subsequent spring.