Julia Garner, whose roles on Netflix‘s Ozark and Inventing Anna earned her three Emmy awards and another nomination, is returning to the streamer. She is in final negotiations to play the female lead and executive produce a limited series about the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX and the relationship between FTX co-founder and chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried and his girlfriend and business associate Caroline Ellison (Garner), sources tell Deadline.
The project, from Barack and Michelle Obama’s Netflix-based Higher Ground, is written/executive produced by Oscar winner Graham Moore, with James Ponsoldt as director/exec producer and Jackie Hoyt as showrunner/exec producer, I hear. A rep for Netflix declined comment.
Described as the wild romance of Gen Z’s own Bonnie and Clyde, the untitled FTX series centers on two hyper smart, ambitious young idealists who tried to remake the global financial system in the blink of an eye –
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