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Though the actual world impacts of FTX’s spectacular crash have but to totally settle, Amazon’s reportedly shifting ahead with a miniseries in regards to the bankrupt crypto change and its notorious former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried.

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

In the years since Avengers: Endgame’s 2019 launch, the Russos have largely centered on comparatively smaller tasks at AGBO like Netflix’s The Gray Man starring Chris Evans, Apple TV Plus’ Cherry starring Tom Holland, and The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once. A drama a few group of younger individuals using the crypto prepare proper as much as and over the sting of a cliff sounds very very similar to the type of venture that AGBO is likely to be into, but it surely isn’t instantly clear what the Russos — who’re greatest recognized for his or her motion and superhero films — may deliver to this story.

In a press release in regards to the sequence, Amazon Studios CEO Jennifer Salke known as Weil and the Russos the perfect companions “to bring this multifaceted story to our global Prime Video audience,” and the Russos remarked on how the mess at FTX is ripe for dramatization.

“It crosses many sectors—celebrity, politics, academia, tech, criminality, sex, drugs, and the future of modern finance,” the Russos mentioned. “At the center of it all sits an extremely mysterious figure with complex and potentially dangerous motivations. We want to understand why.”

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