Hollywood is making a Craig Wright biopic and they're calling it "Bitcoin."
The film, directed by Doug Liman and previously titled "Killing Satoshi," is heading to the Cannes Market with a cast that includes Casey Affleck as Craig Wright, Gal Gadot as a character named Charlotte "Lotte" Miller, Isla Fisher, and Pete Davidson as blockchain investor Calvin Ayre. Nick Schenk wrote the screenplay. Ryan Kavanaugh and Lawrence Grey are producing.
The official synopsis frames it as "the true story of one man's quest to prove that he is, in fact, the creator of Bitcoin," a claim that "puts his life in peril and sets off a global firestorm and a wild, high-stakes race between the who's who of tech billionaires and world leaders." It asks: "Why do the world's most powerful people want to erase one man, and why would they spend hundreds of millions of dollars to do it?"
What the synopsis doesn't mention: a UK High Court ruled in 2024 that Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto and that the evidence he presented had been fabricated. Wright himself recently admitted publicly that his strategy had failed, acknowledging he was wrong about how he approached the entire claim. The Bitcoin community has broadly rejected his assertions for years.
The production also drew attention earlier this year for a casting notice revealing plans to use AI-driven performance techniques, including markerless motion capture and digital adjustments to actors' performances.
The movie has been in development since February and is currently in production. Framing a debunked claim as a thriller where the claimant is the sympathetic protagonist is a choice.
The film, directed by Doug Liman and previously titled "Killing Satoshi," is heading to the Cannes Market with a cast that includes Casey Affleck as Craig Wright, Gal Gadot as a character named Charlotte "Lotte" Miller, Isla Fisher, and Pete Davidson as blockchain investor Calvin Ayre. Nick Schenk wrote the screenplay. Ryan Kavanaugh and Lawrence Grey are producing.
The official synopsis frames it as "the true story of one man's quest to prove that he is, in fact, the creator of Bitcoin," a claim that "puts his life in peril and sets off a global firestorm and a wild, high-stakes race between the who's who of tech billionaires and world leaders." It asks: "Why do the world's most powerful people want to erase one man, and why would they spend hundreds of millions of dollars to do it?"
What the synopsis doesn't mention: a UK High Court ruled in 2024 that Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto and that the evidence he presented had been fabricated. Wright himself recently admitted publicly that his strategy had failed, acknowledging he was wrong about how he approached the entire claim. The Bitcoin community has broadly rejected his assertions for years.
The production also drew attention earlier this year for a casting notice revealing plans to use AI-driven performance techniques, including markerless motion capture and digital adjustments to actors' performances.
The movie has been in development since February and is currently in production. Framing a debunked claim as a thriller where the claimant is the sympathetic protagonist is a choice.
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