The film, already in post production, is reportedly a crime-based thriller following in the footsteps of films such as Wall Street, Wolf of Wall Street and The Big Short which focussed on the economic crisis of 2008.
Such films about the financial sector are becoming increasingly popular and tend to get good box office ratings as a result. Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street quickly became the prolific filmmaker’s top-grossing film at the worldwide box office shortly after its release.
Cryptocurrency is not an area which has been ignored as a newcomer to the financial movie genre as plans are afoot for two movies covering the topic apart from “Crypto”. Actor Johnny Depp, of Edward Scissorhands and Pirates of the Caribbean fame, has been linked with a new film said to be a biopic of the late cryptocurrency billionaire Matthew Mellon. Although it hasn’t been confirmed, sources reportedly told the Mail Online that Depp is understood to be interested in the role and that “there is a screenplay being shopped”.
There is a rumor circulating that the soon-to-be-released biography about crypto twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss called “Bitcoin Billionaires” is already being considered for a movie deal even before its release, according to the New York Post.
The latest revelation is clearly more than a rumor, having reached post-production and a predicted release date. “Crypto” is reported to also star Beau Knapp from The Nice Guys and Alexis Bledel from The Handmaid’s Tale.
The producers of the film, Jordan Beckerman of Yale Productions and Jordan Tale Levine, are not reputed to be crypto investors but apparently are fans, so wish to do the film justice treating the subject accurately and fairly. Levine explained:
“Both of us have dabbled (with crypto). I don’t know if either of us would consider ourselves experts. It was really our writers who fleshed out the topic and dove into the research. They were the ones who really became experts to make sure the film was authentic.”
However, it must be mentioned for die-hard fans that cryptocurrency is by no means the main topic of the film. Co-producer Beckerman commented, “It’s more broad than that… It doesn’t particularly focus on any particular coin.” He said that the movie does involve corruption, crime and “a smattering of crypto”.
Kurt Russell is sure to give the film some leverage at the box office on its release next year.
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