Julia Garner, whose roles on Netflix‘s Ozark and Inventing Anna earned her three Emmy awards and another nomination, is returning to the streamer. She is in final negotiations to play the female lead and executive produce a limited series about the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX and the relationship between FTX co-founder and chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried and his girlfriend and business associate Caroline Ellison (Garner), sources tell Deadline.
The project, from Barack and Michelle Obama’s Netflix-based Higher Ground, is written/executive produced by Oscar winner Graham Moore, with James Ponsoldt as director/exec producer and Jackie Hoyt as showrunner/exec producer, I hear. A rep for Netflix declined comment.
Described as the wild romance of Gen Z’s own Bonnie and Clyde, the untitled FTX series centers on two hyper smart, ambitious young idealists who tried to remake the global financial system in the blink of an eye – and then seduced, coaxed, and teased each other into stealing $36 billion.
Like she did in Inventing Anna, Garner is playing a young woman convicted and sent to prison for fraud. After she testified for the prosecution in the trial against Bankman-Fried, Collins was sentenced to two years. She is currently serving a reduced sentence and is set to be released this summer.
Garner has two films coming out in July and August: Marvel’s Fantastic Four, in which she plays The Silver Surfer, and in Zac Creggers horror film for Warner Bros. Weapons. She is repped by UTA, LBI and Sloane, Offer, Weber.
