Apple could turn Michael Lewis’ book on FTX into a feature film

A book being worked on by Michael Lewis (Author of The Big Short, about Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX, Soon to be a full-length movie for Apple TV+. According to reports, the Cupertino-based company Termwill be in talks to turn the story about the failure of a cryptocurrency company into a series or a movie for its platform.

The above environment claims that Apple would be very close to closing a “seven-figure” dealto prevent Netflix or Amazon, two giants of streaming series and movie services that are also interested in telling the story of Sam Bankman-Freed and FTX, from getting the rights to the book to adapt it for the feature. movie.

Michael Lewis’s book on FTX and its now former CEO is essentially aroused great interest from Hollywood production companies. Especially after Sam Bankman-Fried (aka SBF) was accused of diverting $10 billion worth of client funds to his other companies to back his own token; one of the main reasons for the bankruptcy of FTX.

Michael Lewis’s story spans from Sam Bankman-Freed’s childhood to the fall of FTX.

Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of FTX.

Michael Lewis was also working on the story of Sam Bankman-Fried and his cryptocurrency exchange platform before the FTX disaster. The writer, as it turned out Anclair, you have been interviewed and traveled with the employer within the last six months to learn about “his childhood, his early success on Wall Street, effective altruism, and the creation of a crypto empire that catapulted him into the rankings of the world’s richest people in record time.”

However, the story of Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX will cover details that go beyond his personal life and career in the market. Also talks about the rivalry between SBF and Changpeng Zhaowho is the head of Binance and, of course, how the billionaire was forced to file FTX under Section 11 of the US Bankruptcy Law.

Michael Lewis, of course, hasn’t started writing the book yet, so it’s likely that we won’t be able to see the story on Apple TV+ – or any other platform, unless Apple finally manages to close the deal – for a few years.