Sam Bankman-Fried still has over 20 years left on his prison sentence, but Netflix is already bringing his story to the small screen.
On Thursday, the streaming giant dropped the first trailer for its upcoming miniseries The Altruists. The show dramatizes the real-life story of Bankman-Fried and his ex-girlfriend Caroline Ellison, who were at the center of a multibillion-dollar fraud scandal that brought down FTX, once one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges.
Netflix’s telling of the story appears to be taking a more sympathetic approach, portraying Bankman-Fried, played by Anthony Boyle, and Ellison, played by Julia Garner, as modern-day Silicon Valley versions of Bonnie and Clyde who initially set out…







