Hollywood ready to invest in story of alleged ‘bitcoin bandit’

nypost.com:

couple arrested Feb. 8 for allegedly trying to launder $3.6 billion in stolen cryptocurrency — is holed up in a $1.5 million FiDi two-bedroom.

But she might want to answer her phones, because Hollywood is calling. (As of publication, her voicemail was full.)Moving at the warp speed of crypto valuation itself, her outrageous story has, in just two weeks, inspired two documentaries and a scripted TV series.“A lot of people have been trying to come up with a way to tell a story about crypto and the world we live in today,” said Nick Bilton, who is co-executive-producing a Netflix documentary with Chris Smith (best known for his doc, “Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened“) signed on to direct. “It’s hard to tell it through technology.

You want to tell it through human characters. Heather and Ilya are the most human.”Part of the story’s appeal is how unlikely they appeared for a major heist — but also how truly odd Morgan, who rapped under the name Razzlekhan, seems.The 31-year-old’s detention memo describes her spitting at least one verse that now seems uncannily revelatory: “Spear phish your password / Have all your funds transferred.” “I think she is broken,” Bilton said of Morgan, who identifies as a journalist, entrepreneur and international economist.“In high school she was made fun of for her voice.

She did the rap stuff as a way of dealing with her own anxiety and insecurity. Putting aside the crime, I think she had a rough go of it.