Camila Russo, author of The Infinite Machine, telling the story of the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain, has confirmed that a film will be produced to adapt the book to the cinema. Ridley Scott, to whom we owe Gladiator, Alien, or Alone on Mars, has joined the project.
A movie about Ethereum soon in theaters
Camila Russo announced that her book The Infinite Machine, telling the story of the Ethereum blockchain (ETH) and its founder, Vitalik Buterin, will be adapted into a movie.
Shyam Madiraju will write the film, and Scott Free Productions has joined the production.
The company was founded in 1995 by Ridley Scott, the director of Alien and Gladiator. More recently, we can also mention Alone on Mars with Matt Damon or The House of Gucci with Lady Gaga.
Ridley Scott’s production company has 100 Emmy nominations and 22 wins.
This is not the first time a film project has dealt with cryptocurrency as a subject. For example, an independent documentary about Ethereum is also in production. Nevertheless, this announcement is probably the most ambitious one so far and the one with the potential to reach the most audience.
An adaptation of a best-selling book
The film will be based on the book The Infinite Machine published in 2020 by HarperCollins. Written by Camila Russo, she is the founder of the crypto media The Defiant. Before devoting herself fully to the blockchain universe, she was a journalist for 7 years at Bloomberg, until 2019.
The book tells how Vitalik Buterin was able to convince, at the age of 19, a whole team to found with him, what is now the second most capitalized cryptocurrency on the market, thanks to the revolutionary technology of smart contracts.
Camila Russo spoke about this big screen adaptation:
“It’s incredibly exciting to have Ridley Scott and the Scott Free team producing the film […] on board. I can’t imagine a better team to turn the compelling story of the people behind the most revolutionary technology since the Internet into a feature film that will capture the hearts of our generation.”
With the project still in its infancy, we have no timetable for production or casting information at this time. But there is no doubt that a film about Ethereum, produced with such a team, could give a huge boost to our ecosystem.
