Jon M. Chu, the director of Loopy Wealthy Asians and G.I. Joe: Retaliation, is growing a brand new movie undertaking titled The Goxfather. The movie is claimed to be a biopic that facilities on Mark Karpeles, “who as soon as owned and ran the largest bitcoin trade on the planet.”
Mark Karpeles is an entrepreneur finest recognized for his involvement within the cryptocurrency world, significantly because the CEO of Mt. Gox, a once-dominant Bitcoin trade. Karpeles gained notoriety within the early 2010s when Mt. Gox suffered a catastrophic hack, ensuing within the sudden lack of half a billion {dollars} price of customer-owned bitcoins in the end resulting in the trade’s chapter in 2014.
Karpeles confronted authorized troubles in Japan, the place he lived on the time, and was arrested on expenses associated to embezzlement and knowledge manipulation. After a prolonged authorized battle, he was finally discovered responsible of falsifying monetary information however was acquitted of embezzlement expenses in 2019.
That is an attention-grabbing story and one that ought to make for an excellent film, particularly with Jon M. Chu on the helm. Chu is at present directing the characteristic movie adaptation of Depraved for Common Footage.
Supply: Deadline
