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Anthony Boyle at the Disney Plus BAFTA TV Awards reception in May 2025. | Photo: Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n

Like Amazon<\/a> and Apple<\/a>, Netflix is also looking to cash in on the story of how Sam Bankman-Fried<\/a> and Caroline Ellison<\/a> managed to steal billions from the FTX cryptocurrency exchange.<\/p>\n

Variety<\/em><\/a> <\/em>reports that Anthony Boyle (Tetris<\/em><\/a>, Manhunt<\/em>) and Julia Garner (Ozark<\/em>, The Fantastic Four: First Steps<\/em><\/a>) have been cast in Netflix\u2019s upcoming drama series The Altruists<\/em> as Bankman-Fried and Ellison. Executive produced by Graham Moore and Jacqueline Hoyt (who will also showrun the series), The Altruists <\/em>will recount how Bankman-Fried, FTX\u2019s former CEO, and Ellison, the former head of FTX\u2019s sister cryptocurrency trading firm, Alameda Research, enriched themselves by defrauding FTX\u2019s investors. Netflix has ordered eight episodes for the series, and James Ponsoldt (Shrinking<\/em>, Running Point<\/em>) is attached to direct the premiere.<\/p>\n

Netflix describes the series as being about \u201ctwo hyper-smart, ambitious young idealists who tried to remake the global financial system in the blink of an eye \u2014 and then seduced, coaxed, and teased each other into stealing $8 billion,\u201d which sounds accurate, if a bit aggrandizing. Presumably, the show will cover how both Bankman-Fried and Ellison ultimately wound up being sentenced to 25 and two years in prison, respectively. And if The Altruists <\/em>really wants to be seen as a serious, thoughtful piece of storytelling that isn\u2019t just mythologizing its central felons, it should probably touch on how hard Bankman-Fried is now pushing for Donald Trump to give him a pardon<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(Disclosure: The Altruists <\/em>is a coproduction by Higher Ground Productions and New York Magazine\/Vox Media Studios.)<\/p>\n

Correction, May 29th: <\/em><\/strong><\/em>An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Bankman-Fried pleaded guilty to the charges against him. He pleaded not guilty before he was subsequently sentenced to 25 years.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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