Overview
- Julia Garner is negotiating to play Caroline Ellison and serve as executive producer in Netflix's limited series about FTX.
- The series, produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground, will explore the personal and criminal dynamics between Ellison and Sam Bankman-Fried.
- Graham Moore and Jacqueline Hoyt are attached as co-showrunners, with James Ponsoldt directing the first episode and executive producing.
- The project will comprise eight episodes, with filming anticipated to begin this summer.
- FTX, founded in 2019, collapsed in 2022 after an $8 billion shortfall in customer funds, leading to federal investigations and the 2023 convictions of Ellison and Bankman-Fried.