Netflix releases trailer for FTX drama The Altruists

Netflix released a trailer October 8 for The Altruists, an eight-episode limited series about the rise and collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX and the people at its center. The drama is scheduled to premiere November 19 on Netflix. Anthony Boyle portrays FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, while Julia Garner plays Caroline Ellison, who led Alameda Research, a trading firm affiliated with the exchange. The series follows the pair’s business and personal relationship as they build their companies and face the fallout from FTX’s collapse. Netflix’s promotional description characterizes them as ambitious idealists who were accused of stealing $8 billion; that figure is the series’ logline wording, not a judicial finding of an exact loss total. The trailer depicts Bankman-Fried and Ellison launching a cryptocurrency business and pursuing a plan to remake finance. The series draws on the events surrounding FTX and Alameda, as well as reporting by New York Magazine. Its creators have described the dramatization as including private moments beyond those captured in public records, so some scenes are reconstructions rather than documented events.