From his Brooklyn prison cell, Palo Alto’s disgraced cryptocurrency mogul, Sam Bankman-Fried, has described a harrowing existence of surviving on bread, water and peanut butter and denied adequate internet access to prepare for his trial in October.
In November, Amazon ordered an eight-episode limited series about the FTX scandal, which the streamer was planning to fast-track before the writers strike, The Ankler reported. New York Times’ columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin also has an SBF-related project in the works, as does Graham Moore, the Oscar-winning screen writer of “The Imitation Game,” drawing on reporting from a New York Magazine story. Mark Wahlberg’s production company is also developing some kind of property.
On one hand, Bankman-Fried isn’t as outwardly glamorous as Holmes or Delvey, with the New York Times fashion critic Vanessa Friedman sayingof Silicon Valley’s business casual aesthetic, appearing in public with the “most unkempt bed-head” and T-shirts and cargo pants that looked like they had been slept in.
In that vein, the Bankman-Fried narrative also offers the intrigue of seeing arrogant elites getting their comeuppance. Consider the public’s outrage when Bankman-Fried was freed ol, which allowed him to remain on home confinement in his parents’ spacious home on the Stanford campus — a luxury not afforded to the majority of federal defendants.