here's what we know about the planned ftx movies

there are SO many 🙈

In early 2022, Sam Bankman-Fried was a mood. A new EA billionaire driving his Corolla around the Bahamas? What’s not to like?!

And then in November we found at that he’s (allegedly) been stealing customer deposits. After an interview with Kelsey Piper, it’s not even obvious if he ever believed in the values he talked about.

It’s a pretty brutal story, one that many of us are still pretty upset about, especially since we still don’t know which EA leaders knew what when. But it’s also caught the attention of Hollywood in a big way. There are at least nine film and TV adaptations of SBF’s story in the works, and chances are that at least a few of them will feature EA.

Here are the ones I’m most likely to watch:

• SBF and the End of Silicon Valley. This might be one of the first to drop - originally slated for Q2 2023, aka now, although I’ve heard nothing recently. It’s also billed to focus heavily on SBF’s involvement with Effective Altruism. If it comes out soon, this will be my first watch.

• Amazon Studios miniseries. An eight-episode series produced by Joe and Anthony Russo (they make Avengers movies). According to Variety, “multiple Marvel actors” have been in discussions about taking roles in the show. I am obsessed with the idea of Will MacAskill being played by Chris Hemsworth and absolutely cannot wait for this one.

• Michael Lewis book adaptation. Michael Lewis wrote “The Big Short”. He had already spent six months traveling with and interviewing SBF (and Will MacAskill and Toby Ord) for his book before this all went down. Out of all the movies, I’m guessing this will be the most accurate, and focus the most on EA.

Not gonna lie, I’m extremely anxious about both what actually happened and how it will be portrayed. This isn’t how I’d hoped EA would make its big screen debut. But there’s no way I’ll be able to resist watching at least a few of these and posting my hot takes on my Twitter.