'Killing Satoshi': $70M Bitcoin Film Starring Casey Affleck Will Make Heavy Use of AI

An upcoming full-feature movie produced with artificial quality volition prima crypto and its starring asset, Bitcoin, according to a report from The Wrap.

“Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi,” directed by “Bourne Identity” manager Doug Liman, volition diagnostic a star-studded formed including Gal Gadot, Casey Affleck, Isla Fisher, and Pete Davidson, with a $70 cardinal budget—and a large assistance from AI tools.

Designed arsenic a thriller focusing connected Bitcoin and the hunt for its pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, the movie follows a crippled crossed continents and immoderate 200 locations of assorted climates, according to the report. But nary of it was filmed connected location.

“We decided to usage AI precise aboriginal on,” shaper Ryan Kavanaugh told The Wrap. 

“We budgeted retired what it would beryllium to bash it practically, and it was implicit $300 million,” helium said. “We realized we could bring down the outgo by utilizing immoderate of the AI tools retired there.”

The movie was changeable wrong a erstwhile car showroom that they wrapped successful a grey screen, earning it the moniker “the grey box.” Inside the box—as seen successful behind-the-scenes acceptable photos at The Wrap—the settings and lighting were produced with AI, but the performances were each the enactment of existent actors, without alteration. 

“The show is captured successful a precise unsocial mode utilizing our AI protocols,” Kavanaugh told the publication. “So erstwhile the country is generated, the AI is taking the show and gathering everything wrong the show frame.”

“Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi” is expected to beryllium shopped to imaginable buyers astatine the Cannes International Film Festival adjacent week, according to the report. 

The film’s buying is timely, fixed the resurgent speech astir the individuality of Bitcoin’s creator. Last week, a New York Times expose named large Bitcoin property and Blockstream CEO Adam Back arsenic the creator of the apical crypto asset. 

Back denied the claim, calling the portion a “combination of coincidence and akin phrases from radical with akin acquisition and interests.” 

In 2024 ,an HBO documentary entitled “Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery” said that BTC halfway developer Peter Todd was truly the creator. To the claim, Todd publicly stated that helium was “not Satoshi.”

Another documentary film, “Finding Satoshi,” is expected to effort to unmask the Bitcoin builder erstwhile it debuts adjacent week.

The mysterious Bitcoin laminitis disappeared from the net successful 2011, 2 years aft the network’s launch. Their reported stash of holdings—nearly 1.1 cardinal BTC according to information from Arkham Intelligence—is present valued astir $81 billion. 

Bitcoin is up 0.7% successful the past 24 hours, precocious trading astir $74,900. It remains much than 40% disconnected its all-time precocious of $126,080 acceptable past October.