An Interest In:
Web News this Week
- April 2, 2024
- April 1, 2024
- March 31, 2024
- March 30, 2024
- March 29, 2024
- March 28, 2024
- March 27, 2024
December 8, 2021 09:09 pm
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/8/22824561/apple-theranos-elizabeth-homes-jennifer-lawrence-adam-mckay-bad-blood
Apple will pay for Jennifer Lawrence to play Elizabeth Holmes in new Theranos film
Apple says it will produce a movie about former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, with Jennifer Lawrence of Hunger Games fame in the starring role. The movie, to be directed by Succession creator Adam McKay, will be based on the bestselling book Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by former Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou. He wrote the first news stories detailing Theranos’ problems, even as the company and Holmes were being lauded in Silicon Valley.
Holmes is currently on trial facing 11 counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud after it was discovered that Theranos’ blood testing technology didn’t meet the standards it claimed to investors. At the time of its unraveling, Theranos was valued...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/8/22824561/apple-theranos-elizabeth-homes-jennifer-lawrence-adam-mckay-bad-blood
Share this article:
Tweet
View Full Article
The Verge
The Verge is an ambitious multimedia effort founded in 2011More About this Source Visit The Verge