Lena Dunham Writing Movie About FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried for Apple, A24

Lena Dunham is engaged on the script for a function about FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried.

The Women creator is on board to put in writing a movie adapting writer Michael Lewis’ best-selling 2023 e-book Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon. Apple Studios and A24 are producing and growing the film that’s in early improvement.

Bankman-Fried based FTX in 2019, and the cryptocurrency trade loved an increase to prominence that included the corporate’s industrial operating in the course of the 2022 Tremendous Bowl. FTX boasted endorsements from such celebrities as Tom Brady, Stephen Curry and Larry David.

In March, the disgraced crypto entrepreneur was sentenced to 25 years in jail and compelled to forfeit over $11 billion following his conviction on expenses of fraud, conspiracy and cash laundering. Bankman-Fried is interesting the conviction and sentence.

Dunham just lately wrapped manufacturing on the Netflix romantic-comedy collection Too A lot, which she wrote and directed. She co-stars within the present alongside Megan Stalter, Will Sharpe, Richard E. Grant, Janicza Bravo, Michael Zegan and Emily Ratajkowski.

Beforehand, Dunham wrote and directed the 2022 movies Sharp Stick and Catherine Known as Birdy. Her HBO comedy collection Women, wherein she additionally starred, signed off in 2017 after six seasons.

Lewis has seen plenty of his nonfiction books grow to be function movies. The Blind Facet (2009), Moneyball (2011) and The Large Quick (2015) had been all primarily based on his works.

Different films within the works from Apple and A24 embrace Spike Lee’s Excessive and Low with Denzel Washington and the Jennifer Lawrence-led thriller The Wives.

Dunham is represented by CAA, ID PR and Hansen Jacobson.

Selection first reported on Dunham adapting Lewis’ e-book.