The whiplash-inducing rise and fall of American businessman Trevor Milton will be the subject of a new scripted project from Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions, the Wall Street Journal and Story Force Entertainment.
The project — currently exploring both feature and series adaptations — is based on WSJ’s popular “Bad Bets” podcast franchise, which is currently airing a series subtitled “The Unraveling of Trevor Milton.” It follows the former Mormon missionary-turned-founder of electric vehicle startup Nikola Motor Company, whose misdoings were exposed by Wall Street outsiders and a ragtag team of whistleblowers. The story gripped listeners who witnessed in real time Milton’s recent convictions for securities and wire fraud. The adaptation will share narrative qualities with the Oscar-winning “The Big Short,” filmmakers added.
“It pops the balloon of fakery at the heart of American big business. First, a blowhard pumps up his stock by selling a dream too good to be true,...
The project — currently exploring both feature and series adaptations — is based on WSJ’s popular “Bad Bets” podcast franchise, which is currently airing a series subtitled “The Unraveling of Trevor Milton.” It follows the former Mormon missionary-turned-founder of electric vehicle startup Nikola Motor Company, whose misdoings were exposed by Wall Street outsiders and a ragtag team of whistleblowers. The story gripped listeners who witnessed in real time Milton’s recent convictions for securities and wire fraud. The adaptation will share narrative qualities with the Oscar-winning “The Big Short,” filmmakers added.
“It pops the balloon of fakery at the heart of American big business. First, a blowhard pumps up his stock by selling a dream too good to be true,...
- 11/8/2022
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Rapper Young Thug, who was arrested on Rico charges in Atlanta two months ago and remains in jail without bond, will be the subject of documentary projects being developed by Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions and Rolling Stone Films, the companies are announcing today.
Jigsaw and Rolling Stone are in the early stages of producing both a documentary series and an audio podcast about the rise and increasing legal problems of Young Thug, aka Jeffrey Williams, and his label, Ysl, which a Georgia court said in an indictment was essentially a “criminal street gang.” The hip-hop star has continued to be in the news even this week, as a court in Fulton County, Georgia denied bail to both him and fellow rapper Gunna, citing the potential for witness tampering.
The lack of a conclusion yet to Young Thug’s legal saga is no obstacle for the producers, who are looking...
Jigsaw and Rolling Stone are in the early stages of producing both a documentary series and an audio podcast about the rise and increasing legal problems of Young Thug, aka Jeffrey Williams, and his label, Ysl, which a Georgia court said in an indictment was essentially a “criminal street gang.” The hip-hop star has continued to be in the news even this week, as a court in Fulton County, Georgia denied bail to both him and fellow rapper Gunna, citing the potential for witness tampering.
The lack of a conclusion yet to Young Thug’s legal saga is no obstacle for the producers, who are looking...
- 7/8/2022
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
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Jigsaw Productions has optioned the upcoming nonfiction book Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency and is developing adaptations in multiple media forms, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The Doubleday title, penned by Wired senior writer Andy Greenberg, follows a group of investigators that developed means of tracing cryptocurrency and exposed a previously hidden criminal underworld using the currency, prompting a wave of criminal cases. Jigsaw Productions, documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney’s company that is under the umbrella of Imagine Entertainment, is developing the book as a scripted adaptation, a documentary and a podcast, with creatives attached to lead those efforts.
Jigsaw Productions evp of scripted content Kevin Plunkett is set to executive produce the scripted adaptation alongside The Newsroom and The Mosquito Coast writer and producer Gideon Yago, while Elizabeth Holmes doc The Inventor: Out for...
Jigsaw Productions has optioned the upcoming nonfiction book Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency and is developing adaptations in multiple media forms, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The Doubleday title, penned by Wired senior writer Andy Greenberg, follows a group of investigators that developed means of tracing cryptocurrency and exposed a previously hidden criminal underworld using the currency, prompting a wave of criminal cases. Jigsaw Productions, documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney’s company that is under the umbrella of Imagine Entertainment, is developing the book as a scripted adaptation, a documentary and a podcast, with creatives attached to lead those efforts.
Jigsaw Productions evp of scripted content Kevin Plunkett is set to executive produce the scripted adaptation alongside The Newsroom and The Mosquito Coast writer and producer Gideon Yago, while Elizabeth Holmes doc The Inventor: Out for...
- 6/29/2022
- by Katie Kilkenny
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Spotify-owned Gimlet Media will cease production on a buzzy podcast chronicling structural racism at Bon Appetit magazine amid allegations that top Gimlet staffers fostered a similarly toxic workplace.
Last week, Reply All co-founder P.J. Vogt and senior reporter Sruthi Pinnamaneni -- who was the host of the Bon Appetit series, entitled The Test Kitchen -- stepped down from their roles at Reply All. And today, in an announcement posted to the podcast's stream, Reply All co-founder Alex Gold announced that The Test Kitchen has been discontinued -- though two of the four episodes that have already aired will remain available, complete with disclaimers.
“We now understand that we should never have published this series as reported, and the fact that we did was a systemic editorial failure,” Gold said. “We're sorry to our colleagues and our former colleagues that we hurt, we're sorry to you, our listeners, and of...
Last week, Reply All co-founder P.J. Vogt and senior reporter Sruthi Pinnamaneni -- who was the host of the Bon Appetit series, entitled The Test Kitchen -- stepped down from their roles at Reply All. And today, in an announcement posted to the podcast's stream, Reply All co-founder Alex Gold announced that The Test Kitchen has been discontinued -- though two of the four episodes that have already aired will remain available, complete with disclaimers.
“We now understand that we should never have published this series as reported, and the fact that we did was a systemic editorial failure,” Gold said. “We're sorry to our colleagues and our former colleagues that we hurt, we're sorry to you, our listeners, and of...
- 2/25/2021
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
Gimlet podcast Reply All is going on hiatus and won’t air the final two episodes of its miniseries about the toxic environment at food magazine Bon Appetit as it reckons with allegations about its own troubling work culture.
The decision comes a week after senior reporter Sruthi Pinnamaneni and co-host P.J. Vogt stepped down from their roles on the show after former colleagues described how they pushed back against unionization efforts at Gimlet and worked against efforts to diversify the staff in late 2018 and early 2019 prior to the company’s sale to Spotify.
Co-host Alex Goldman released a statement on ...
The decision comes a week after senior reporter Sruthi Pinnamaneni and co-host P.J. Vogt stepped down from their roles on the show after former colleagues described how they pushed back against unionization efforts at Gimlet and worked against efforts to diversify the staff in late 2018 and early 2019 prior to the company’s sale to Spotify.
Co-host Alex Goldman released a statement on ...
- 2/25/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Gimlet podcast Reply All is going on hiatus and won’t air the final two episodes of its miniseries about the toxic environment at food magazine Bon Appetit as it reckons with allegations about its own troubling work culture.
The decision comes a week after senior reporter Sruthi Pinnamaneni and co-host P.J. Vogt stepped down from their roles on the show after former colleagues described how they pushed back against unionization efforts at Gimlet and worked against efforts to diversify the staff in late 2018 and early 2019 prior to the company’s sale to Spotify.
Co-host Alex Goldman released a statement on ...
The decision comes a week after senior reporter Sruthi Pinnamaneni and co-host P.J. Vogt stepped down from their roles on the show after former colleagues described how they pushed back against unionization efforts at Gimlet and worked against efforts to diversify the staff in late 2018 and early 2019 prior to the company’s sale to Spotify.
Co-host Alex Goldman released a statement on ...
- 2/25/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Reply All host Pj Vogt and producer Sruthi Pinnamaneni are stepping away from the popular Gimlet podcast following allegations that they previously contributed to a toxic workplace environment at the Spotify-owned studio.
The allegations surfaced after Vogt and Pinnamaneni released the second installment in an ambitious four-part Reply All miniseries about food magazine Bon Appetit, which came under fire last summer for fostering an unhealthy workplace where journalists of color were often paid less than their white counterparts.
Eric Eddings, who previously co-hosted the Gimlet show The Nod, tweeted on Feb. 16 that “Pj and Sruthi contributed to a near identical toxic dynamic at ...
The allegations surfaced after Vogt and Pinnamaneni released the second installment in an ambitious four-part Reply All miniseries about food magazine Bon Appetit, which came under fire last summer for fostering an unhealthy workplace where journalists of color were often paid less than their white counterparts.
Eric Eddings, who previously co-hosted the Gimlet show The Nod, tweeted on Feb. 16 that “Pj and Sruthi contributed to a near identical toxic dynamic at ...
- 2/18/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Reply All host Pj Vogt and producer Sruthi Pinnamaneni are stepping away from the popular Gimlet podcast following allegations that they contributed to a toxic workplace environment at the Spotify-owned studio.
The allegations surfaced after Vogt and Pinnamaneni released the second installment in an ambitious four-part Reply All miniseries about food magazine Bon Appetit, which came under fire last summer for fostering an unhealthy workplace where journalists of color were often paid less than their white counterparts.
Eric Eddings, who previously co-hosted the Gimlet show The Nod, tweeted on Feb. 16 that “Pj and Sruthi contributed to a near identical toxic dynamic at Gimlet”...
The allegations surfaced after Vogt and Pinnamaneni released the second installment in an ambitious four-part Reply All miniseries about food magazine Bon Appetit, which came under fire last summer for fostering an unhealthy workplace where journalists of color were often paid less than their white counterparts.
Eric Eddings, who previously co-hosted the Gimlet show The Nod, tweeted on Feb. 16 that “Pj and Sruthi contributed to a near identical toxic dynamic at Gimlet”...
- 2/18/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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