Crypto King Sam Bankman-Fried & FTX sparks more Hollywood interest from Graham Moore & Vox’s New York Magazine

EXCLUSIVE: The wild story of crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried and the $32 billion collapse of FTX is attracting a lot of interest from Hollywood.

Michael Lewis writes a book Amazon, Netflix, David Fincher, Josh Gad and David Heyman talk about, while Scott Burns and Jonathan Glickman look at a possible project in Panoramic The New York TimesAndrew Ross Sorkin.

Graham Moore, the Oscar-winning writer behind the film Benedict Cumberbatch The Imitation Gamealso threw his hat in the ring.

Moore will write and direct an adaptation of New York Magazine’s deep dive into the subject.

The magazine’s cover story, which chronicles Bankman-Fried’s rise from an honest crypto man willing to spend his fortune to save the world, to the post-Chapter 11 demise of FTX, which saw his property was to be sold in the Bahamas.

Scoop Wasserstein will produce for Vox Media Studios and New York Magazine.

This is Moore and Wasserstein’s latest project together, as the two fell behind the outfit, a psychological crime thriller starring Mark Rylance and Zoey Deutch that Moore wrote, directed and premiered earlier this year.

Moore envisions the project as a series or feature film.

“Like everyone else on the planet, I couldn’t take my eyes off this story for weeks,” Moore said. “Thanks to New York Magazine’s unparalleled reporting, each new revelation is more shocking, fascinating, sometimes terrifying and often more hilarious than the last. I am thrilled to be working with a team of world-class journalists reporting in real time on a story that moves as fast as the Internet. I’ve spent a lot of time writing about the complex and unique characters at the center of big technological moments. In SBF, “complex” and “singular” sound like understatements. Whether he set out to change the world or not, it seems he just did.

New York Magazine and Vox Media Studios are also developing a documentary on the subject, with the companies working with reporters and sources across the country and the Bahamas.

It would be the latest documentary project on the subject, similar to the Fyre Festival and Gamestop saga with competing projects. Vice is working on a doc, as are XTR and David Darg.

“The projects we’ve built around Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX are models of how Vox Media Studios enhances the stories of our incredible journalists,” added VMS Chief Creative Officer Chad Mumm.

Vox Media Studios and New York Magazine are behind projects like this sex diaries documentation adaptation for HBO, Razzlekhan: The Notorious Crocodile of Wall Street with Lily Collins on Hulu and Who Killed Tulum? along with Annapurna at Amazon Studios.

Moore is repped by CAA and Felker Toczek, New York Magazine and Vox Media Studios are repped by WME and Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks.