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Lena Dunham to write Sam Bankman-Fried movie for Apple


The Girls creator is set to adapt Michael Lewis’s bestselling 2023 book on the controversial FTX founder

Lena Dunham has been tapped to write a new movie on the rise and fall of the FTX founder, Sam Bankman-Fried. Bankman-Fried perpetrated one of the largest financial frauds in history and was described during sentencing as “a calculating math genius who sought power and influence while knowingly committing wrongdoing”. She is coming off the back of the Netflix series Too Much, a romantic comedy she wrote and directed which stars Megan Stalter and Will Sharpe.

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