Hollywood Agency Shopping Rights to Mt Gox Movie
The story of the rise and fall of bitcoin exchange Mt Gox and its CEO Mark Karpeles could soon find its way to the silver screen. The Hollywood Reporter reports that a film version of David Kushner's recent Rolling Stone piece on Mark Karpeles and Mt Gox is being shopped around by Creative Artists Agency, one of Hollywood's biggest talent agencies known for representing a wide array of A-listers. If optioned, the story would be the second involving bitcoin to enter the Hollywood pipeline, following 2013 news that the saga of online black market Silk Road had been picked up by 20th Century....
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The arrest of Mark Karpeles and the Mt. Gox incident has become a national scandal of Japan over the last few months. This week, the rights to the Rolling Stone's story on Karpeles, and his journey from being an odd geek to a bitcoin mogul whom later becomes responsible for the loss of about half a billion US dollars is in the process of being acquired by a Hollywood film maker and agency CAA (Cretive Artists Agency). The film on Karpeles and the closure of Mt. Gox could be the next big bitcoin related movie to be released in Hollywood, following the story on Silk Road, which its rights....
Hollywood wants to do a movie about the infamous Mark Karpeles and the now-defunct Mt. Gox exchange. The Hollywood Reporter is saying that a script of the scandalous incident is finding its way around film circles. The Gox story recently told in Rolling Stone is being sold to the highest bidder in the Hollywood market by the Creative Artists Agency. The....
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