$70M Bitcoin film “Killing Satoshi” starring Casey Affleck explores the mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto, with heavy use of AI in production

Doug Liman casting Craig Wright as a lead is a choice — UK courts ruled definitively in 2024 that Wright isn't Satoshi, so this plays more as conspiracy fiction than biopic. $300M-to-$70M budget compression via AI-generated environments on gray-box soundstages mirrors the film's own subject matter: strip out legacy infrastructure, replace with code, deliver the same output at a fraction of the cost. 20-day principal photography with 55 AI artists handling 30 weeks of post-production — that crew ratio is the filmmaking equivalent of a protocol replacing an entire settlement layer.

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