Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX Get Spoofed in New Animated Comedy Starring T.J. Miller

If you ever thought the FTX saga seemed destined for a tv adaptation, the amusement manufacture agrees with you. Last year’s illness of the rotten-to-the-core crypto speech is the inspiration for an upcoming animated drama called “FORTUN3.”

The series, created by upstart Web3 workplace Toonstar, is simply a send-up of the crypto-bro civilization that FTX thrived in, implicit with a protagonist partially based connected its erstwhile CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, oregon SBF.

Announced astatine Comic-Con, “FORTUN3,” which premieres this fall, volition service arsenic a benignant of root communicative for SBF and FTX – the products of an easy-money civilization mixed with unbridled tech optimism, explains John Attanasio, co-founder and CEO of Toonstar. Besides the FTX parody, viewers tin expect references to different concern boondoggles driven by egomaniacs with a messiah analyzable (think: Theranos and WeWork). T.J. Miller of “Silicon Valley” fame volition dependable the SBF clone.

“[The series] is based connected a real-life formed of characters that lend themselves precise good to cartoons,” Attanasio told CoinDesk. “We're going to beryllium taking the worldly that you spot successful the headlines and past bring that into the series.”

“FORTUN3” is the latest successful Toonstar’s “interactive series,” which adhd a generous helping of Web3 to springiness fans avenues to enactment successful the originative experience. The workplace treats assemblage information via NFT-based applications arsenic its cardinal differentiator – an thought acceptable for a wider audience, Attanasio believes.

“Through the narrative, there’s going to beryllium a batch of cosmopolitan themes that hopefully volition entreaty to [people] not much versed successful crypto,” helium said. “We besides judge that amusement tin beryllium 1 of the usage cases that tin assistance take Web3 mainstream.”

In the lawsuit of “FORTUN3,” viewers volition beryllium capable to level-up their engagement successful the bid via an online crippled – which users tin entree via an NFT – which volition beryllium acceptable successful the aforesaid universe. While the nonstop gameplay is yet to beryllium revealed, it volition impact immoderate benignant of marketplace – 1 that volition beryllium profoundly affected by events successful the show. Considering the effect of FTX’s illness successful the existent world, fans should expect a bumpy ride.

Besides Miller, the “FORTUN3” formed includes Jon Heder (best known for the movie “Napoleon Dynamite”) and actress/model Amber Rose successful its supporting cast. Heder co-founded Verified Labs, a originative bureau that partners with Toonstar connected Web3 projects. Their past collaboration was “Space Junk”, which besides starred Heder and premiered astatine CoinDesk’s Consensus conference successful April.

After its acquisition with “Space Junk,” Toonstar learned a acquisition astir artificial quality (AI) and its imaginable to beryllium an accelerator for deepening the benignant of instrumentality engagement the workplace is looking for, according to Luisa Huang, COO of Toonstar.

“AI is specified a almighty companion instrumentality for assemblage engagement,” she said. “Having an AI companion arsenic a co-pilot, to beryllium a benignant of originative partner, has been truthful palmy to get the assemblage progressive successful participating. In Space Junk, we had [an AI] ‘co-pilot’ for communicative creation. And what we saw was that determination was fundamentally astir a 30x conversion complaint [when utilizing the AI].”

From the Comic-Con debut to the casting of Miller, it’s wide Toonstar sees the caller bid arsenic its astir mainstream play yet. While the rubric of the bid is evidently ironic, it could crook retired to beryllium amazingly apt if, from the ashes of FTX, “FORTUN3” could physique occurrence successful Web3 entertainment.