Apple secures rights to book on Sam Bankman-Fried for $5M

Apple has reportedly paid about $5 million for the screen rights to Michael Lewis’s book on former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, titled Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon. The deal, first reported by Hollywood industry newsletter The Ankler and echoed by outlets covering both entertainment and crypto, gives Apple the rights to adapt the book—which chronicles Bankman-Fried’s rapid rise in crypto and the collapse of FTX—into a film or series for its content ecosystem. Lewis followed and interviewed Bankman-Fried extensively, beginning well before FTX’s implosion and continuing even after the founder’s arrest, giving the book unusually close access to one of the most high-profile financial scandals in recent years. The reported acquisition sparked a competitive bidding process across Hollywood, with Apple said to have outbid rival studios and streamers by leveraging its sizable content budget and appetite for prestige projects linked to real-world financial crises. For Apple, the project fits a pattern of backing adaptations of narrative non-fiction about complex markets and scandals, similar in spirit to earlier Lewis adaptations such as The Big Short, though those were produced by other studios. For the crypto and financial world, the screen adaptation of Going Infinite underscores how the FTX collapse and Bankman-Fried’s prosecution have crossed over from industry-specific news into mainstream cultural storytelling, likely shaping public understanding of the episode for a broad audience.

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