The Coen Brothers Are behind ‘Dark Web’, a Thriller Chronicling Ross Ulbricht and the Silk Road
The Coen brothers, independent U.S. movie makers who are known for making acclaimed dramatic movies, will help script a Fox movie about Ross Ulbricht and the Silk Road marketplace, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Ulbricht was convicted in February of 2015 of seven felony charges including drug trafficking, conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to commit computer hacking and a kingpin charge. He ultimately became an accused murderer. Based On a Wired Story. The Coen brothers movie is based on a two–part Wired magazine article by Joshuah Bearman. The Coens are following an....
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Fox Studios is working with the Coen Brothers to make a movie on Silk Road and Ross Ulbricht. Hollywood is known for making movies on almost anything. Why should Silk Road or the darknet be any different to them? Well, it isn’t and that’s what the Coen Brothers and FOX are going to do; make a movie on Ross Ulbricht and his brainchild, the darknet marketplace — Silk Road. According to reports, the famed Oscar-winning screenplay writers, Joel and Ethan Coen will be working on the story for Fox Studios’ exclusive thriller movie, Dark Web which was earlier titled Silk Road. The screenplay is....
How a 29-year-old Ross Ulbricht (aka Dread Pirate Roberts) built an online illegal-drug marketplace called "The Silk Road" will soon be in motion picture. Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison last year by Judge Katherine Forrest in New York after being handed five sentences: one for 20 years, one for 15 years, one for five and two for life. All are to be served concurrently with no chance of parole. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the true story project is based on a two-part Wired magazine article by Joshuah Bearman, was set up in 2013, with best-selling author Dennis....
Released this year the TV movie documentary ‘Down the Deep, Dark Web’ (2016) puts darknet residents - hackers, cypherpunks and crypto-anarchists - in the spotlight, and lets them “guide us ever deeper down this rabbit hole, uncovering the hidden light at the bottom of the deep dark web”. CoinTelegraph spoke to the writer and associate producer of the movie Yuval Orr about Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, privacy, crypto-anarchy and other issues related to the ‘Deep, Dark Web.’ Ross Ulbricht - revolutionary or crazy? Yuval Orr notes they have never spoken to Ross Ulbricht when working on the....
The New York City prosecutors' evidence against Ross Ulbricht has been released in the build up to the January 2015 Silk Road Trial. Ulbricht stands accused of being Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR), the head of Silk Road, one of the first in a long line of underground Deep Web/Dark Net marketplaces that rely on technology and cryptography to function. Though it has been over a year since the arrest of Ross Ulbricht at the beginning of October in 2013, the list of evidence that will be used by the Silk Road prosecutors in the January trial was obtained recently by the Daily Dot. Ross Ulbricht's....
If Silk Road (Ross Ulbricht?) rings a bell then you might have heard about the dark web marketplace where you can buy the craziest stuff that you won’t find in “normal” stores or elsewhere because it’s illegal. The Silk Road marketplace is dubbed to be the first-ever dark web bazaar that sells illegal items online […]