Overview
- Netflix has greenlit The Altruists, an eight-episode limited series chronicling how FTX’s 2022 collapse revealed an $8 billion accounting shortfall.
- Julia Garner and Anthony Boyle have been confirmed to lead as Caroline Ellison and Sam Bankman-Fried, respectively.
- Graham Moore and Jacqueline Hoyt will co-showrun and executive produce, with James Ponsoldt attached to direct and executive produce the first episode.
- Higher Ground Productions, founded by Barack and Michelle Obama, is producing the series in partnership with New York Magazine/Vox Media Studios.
- The Altruists is one of several forthcoming TV and film projects exploring the FTX debacle and is slated to debut on Netflix in late 2026.