{"id":267627,"date":"2026-10-08T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/watch-the-trailer-for-the-altruists-netflixs-show-about-the-ftx-scandal-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T18:30:00","slug":"watch-the-trailer-for-the-altruists-netflixs-show-about-the-ftx-scandal-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/watch-the-trailer-for-the-altruists-netflixs-show-about-the-ftx-scandal-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the trailer for &#8216;The Altruists,&#8217; Netflix&#8217;s show about the FTX scandal | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s a great time to be alive if you follow tech news and love messy drama. We\u2019re not just getting a Nathan Fielder <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/09\/23\/heres-the-trailer-for-nathan-fielders-elizabeth-holmes-documentary-in-theaters-october-16\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">documentary about Elizabeth Holmes<\/a> this fall. Netflix\u2019s \u201cThe Altruists,\u201d which follows Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison through <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/10\/04\/sbf-criminal-trial-opening-statements\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the scandal that crushed FTX<\/a> and landed them in prison, is coming out on November 19. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s just in time for Thanksgiving, assuming that <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/11\/17\/wtf-is-going-on-at-openai-sam-altman-fired\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another infamous Sam<\/a> doesn\u2019t ruin our holiday plans again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here\u2019s the trailer, starring Anthony Boyle as Sam Bankman-Fried and Julia Garner as Caroline Ellison:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Altruists | Official Trailer | Netflix\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9aGeKSSyuhk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We can\u2019t say we ever expected that the ethical disconnects behind effective altruism were going to pique the interest of Hollywood, but hopefully, Netflix will do the strangeness of this story justice. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFrom the very beginning, I was so fascinated by both Sam\u2019s and Caroline\u2019s real stories,\u201d co-showrunner Graham Moore said in an <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/tudum\/articles\/the-altruists-cast-release-date-news\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a> with Netflix this summer. \u201cThose are both characters I could not have possibly made up had I tried \u2014 I\u2019m not nearly a good enough writer to create characters as fascinating as either Sam Bankman-Fried or Caroline Ellison.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/10\/08\/watch-the-trailer-for-the-altruists-netflixs-show-about-the-ftx-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a great time to be alive if you follow tech news and love messy drama. We\u2019re not just getting a Nathan Fielder documentary about Elizabeth Holmes this fall. Netflix\u2019s \u201cThe Altruists,\u201d which follows Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison through the scandal that crushed FTX and landed them in prison, is coming out on November [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":267629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-267627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}