Julia Garner (Ozark, The Fantastic Four: First Steps) has closed her deal and will star opposite Anthony Boyle (House of Guinness, Say Nothing) in a new Netflix series about Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison and the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, titled The Altruists. Graham Moore (The Imitation Game, The Outfit) and Jacqueline Hoyt (The Underground Railroad, Dietland) will co-showrun and executive produce.
The series follows Sam Bankman-Fried and his girlfriend, Caroline Ellison, two hyper-smart, ambitious young idealists who tried to remake the global financial system in the blink of an eye – and then seduced, coaxed, and teased each other into stealing $8 billion. The series is described as the wild romance of Gen Z’s own Bonnie and Clyde.
James Ponsoldt (The Spectacular Now, Daisy Jones & The Six) will direct the first episode and executive produce alongside Vinnie Malhotra and Jessie Dicovitsky for Higher Ground Productions, Scoop Wasserstein for New York Magazine/Vox Media Studios, Tonia Davis, Lauren Morelli, and Julia Garner.
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The Altruists is the latest project out of Higher Ground’s successful creative partnership with Netflix. Additional projects with Higher Ground include the upcoming All the Sinners Bleed, the recently released Air Force Elite: Thunderbirds, the recently released Starting 5, Bodkin, Leave the World Behind, American Symphony, Working: What We Do All Day and Rustin. Vox/New York Magazine has also collaborated with Netflix on Inventing Anna.