“Blade Runner” director will be producing a movie adaptation of a book about early days of Ethereum, Charles Hoskinson character is also expected to be there
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson, who was also actively involved in the founding of Ethereum, posted a joking tweet, wondering which actor would best suit the character of Hosk in the Ethereum movie being filmed.
This is not the first movie related to crypto that has been planned or shot recently. However, it could be the first one to actually make it to theaters.
Hollywood films the history of Ethereum
News has spread of famed director Ridley Scott (who filmed the iconic ‘Blade Runner’, ‘Alien’ and ‘Gladiator’) producing a film adaptation of a book about the early days of the Ethereum chain – ‘The Infinite Machine”, author by Camilla Russo, crypto journalist.
The movie will be produced by “Scott Free Productions” with Shyam Madiraju sitting in the director’s chair.
It will feature Vitalik Buterin and other co-founders of the second-largest blockchain platform, including Charles Hoskinson who later left the project to create his own platform, Cardano, a few years later. Cardano is currently in the top 10 DLT platforms and its native coin, ADA, is the largest coin working on the PoS consensus, which Ethereum planned to pass several years ago as part of the upgrade. Ethereum 2.0 and is being progressively tested this year.
Other recent Hollywood movies about crypto: Johnny Depp, McAfee and Kurt Russell
Recent projects that were widely discussed for a short while include an action movie, “Crypto,” starring Kurt Russell, and the movie “King of the Jungle”—a biopic about crypto influencer John McAfee, founder of the McAfee antivirus company.
The candidate to play “crypto baron” McAfee has changed several times. Johnny Depp was rejected by McAfee, and he shared in a tweet that Morgan Freeman would be the best choice.
However, on June 23, 2021, McAfee was found dead in a Spanish prison where he had been awaiting to be deported to the U.S. to do jail time for averting tax payments for roughly eight years.
The official version is that McAfee committed suicide by hanging himself. However, his wife Janice doubted it and insisted on an investigation. Before his death, McAfee frequently spoke about the suicide of imprisoned American financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was also found dead in his jail cell.
McAfee believes that his death was a setup and stated that if here were found dead in the same circumstances, it would not be a suicide.
The former CEO of McAfee Associates was a renowned libertarian who often harshly criticized the US government and law enforcement agencies. McAfee believed that the taxes were unconstitutional. He was a zealous proponent of blockchain and privacy coins and believed Bitcoin was stone age technology.
The aforementioned “Crypto” movie came out in 2019, however, its rating on IMDb is only 5.2 out of 10.
