\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Hold onto your crypto. This could get interesting. <\/p>\n
\n\tIt turns out Doug Liman<\/a>\u2018s much-discussed AI-enabled satire Bitcoin<\/a>, starring Casey Affleck, Pete Davidson, Gal Gadot and Isla Fisher, will also have some well known supporting characters.<\/p>\n \n\tVersions of Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un and Eric Trump are due to populate the movie, which follows a man\u2019s quest to prove he created Bitcoin, a claim that puts his life in peril and sets off a high-stakes race between tech billionaires and world leaders with the financial system hanging in the balance.<\/p>\n \n\tWe understand Bezos, Zuckerberg et al have initially been portrayed by actors on camera but the performances will likely go through some level of AI enhancement in order to better resemble the real things. Approvals from those actors to undergo AI changes have already been agreed, according to previous casting notices.<\/p>\n \n\tWe understand Zuckerberg has the most lines of the public figures, while Eric Trump, the businessman and crypto proponent second son of President Trump, will be featured as hawking \u201cTrump coin\u201d and in one scene is depicted as being in the orbit of a stripper. There will also be a fleeting nod to Elon Musk in the movie. This is all according to our understanding of the script, at least. The final movie could always look different.<\/p>\n \n\tNone of the figures are \u2018main\u2019 characters, but we remember how Ali Abbasi\u2019s The Apprentice went down with the Trumps. As in that instance, we hear the Bitcoin team has done plenty of due diligence with lawyers and are leaning into the project as satire, just like SNL or South Park does. Either way, a much-discussed project has added more lightning rods to its armory.<\/p>\n \n\tThe project has generated headlines in recent months for its prominent use of AI. The movie will employ a \u201cmarkerless performative capture stage\u201d instead of any location-shooting and was shot in only 20 days. According to Liman, the AI tech means the film can be made at \u2014 a still hefty \u2014 $70M rather than $200M or $300M.<\/p>\n \n\tFor its AI, the filmmakers are tapping into producer Ryan Kavanaugh\u2019s own proprietary AI within his ACME AI label, as well as Liman\u2019s proprietary PECAN (Performance Capture Animation) process. The film is understood to align with the AI guidelines of the Hollywood guilds.<\/p>\n \n\tThe film sees Hollywood vet Liman reconnect with Oscar winner Affleck who stars as computer scientist Craig Wright. The duo previously worked on 2024 Apple pic\u00a0The Instigators. Davidson plays blockchain investor Calvin Ayre, while Gadot is Charlotte \u201cLotte\u201d Miller.\u00a0The film was written by WGA Award winner Nick Schenk (Gran Torino) and produced by Ryan Kavanaugh and Lawrence Grey. The movie is in post and Patrick Wachsberger\u2019s 193 was selling at the Cannes market.<\/p>\n \n\tAustralian computer scientist and businessman Wright has publicly claimed to be the main part of the team that created the billion dollar business bitcoin, and the identity behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. The claims have been regarded as false by many in the cryptocurrency community and in 2024 the British High Court ruled that Wright is not Nakamoto and must stop saying he is so.<\/p>\n \n\tWachsberger previously described the film as \u201can exciting and gripping story, set in the mysterious and high-stakes real world of crypto.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe film is the highest-profile producing return for Kavanaugh, the once high-flying Relativity Media boss who helped finance films including\u00a0The Social Network,\u00a0The Fighter\u00a0and\u00a0The Fast and the Furious\u00a0before the studio imploded in 2015. Kavanaugh has become a cryptocurrency proponent in recent years.<\/p>\n \n\tThe producers declined to comment for this piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Hold onto your crypto. This could get interesting. 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