Director Doug Liman‘s next feature film effort, “Bitcoin,” which stars Casey Affleck and Pete Davidson, has added two well-known actresses to the cast as the pieces are coming together with a script penned by Nick Schenk (“Gran Torino”).
A casting update from Deadline has revealed that actresses Gal Gadot (“Wonder Woman”) and Isla Fisher (“Now You See Me”) have taken parts in the Liman film (started shooting in February), as the two had previously worked together in the comedy “Keeping Up With The Joneses,” so this project would be a reunion for the pair.
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The outlet also added a synopsis for “Bitcoin”:
“‘Bitcoin’ is 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, with the fate of the world’s entire financial system hanging in the balance, all leading to the question, “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?”
Those character breakdowns see Affleck playing computer scientist Craig Wright (Affleck and Liman previously linked up for the Boston crime comedy “The Instigators”), an Australian tech-bro who has claimed to have created the cryptocurrency. Also, Davidson plays the role of blockchain investor Calvin Ayre, Gal Gadot as Charlotte “Lotte” Miller, and we’re a little in the dark about who Fisher is playing based on the info presented in the update.
“Bitcoin” replaces the previous title of “Killing Satoshi,” a direct nod to the anonymous inventor (Satoshi) of the blockchain currency, which has been increasingly used by criminal syndicates, corrupt governments, and terrorist organizations to launder their money or collect ill-gotten funds digitally. Multiple Bitcoin companies have fallen due to various financial crimes, fraud, and for operating Ponzi schemes. Making the world of Bitcoin a good setting for a thriller.
We’ll end up seeing the film going out to buyers during the Cannes Film Market next month with Patrick Wachsberger‘s 193 handing sales, which coincides with the Cannes Film Festival.
There is also an expectation from a Variety report that the pic will employ the use of AI in a “markerless performative capture stage and not in any locations, using new AI technologies.”
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