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Think: Ocean's 11 meets The Producers (further think: Springtime for Hitler; perhaps actual movie title).

Plot: A person claiming to be Satoshi recruits 11 renowned cryptoers in forming a company designed to conduct the world's largest ICO (in excess of $10B), whereupon once the moneys' raised, they exit scam, but the project takes on a life of its own where the scammers are forced to see the project to fruition in hopes of even a larger payday while the SEC et al. are on their heels.

Thoughts.

EDIT: I'm leaning towards Satoshi 11 opposed to Satoshi's 11. That said, feel free to weigh in if you have a better title in mind.

Also, CryptoBry mentioned (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5142538.msg51029215#msg51029215) at an IEO attached to prominant exchange (even if fictitious) would be better than if it were an ICO.

As new sound ideas are presented, I'll present them below, thus keep you input a comin'.

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Post of interest: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5142538.msg51048086#msg51048086

Title doesn't capture anything but the requirement so suspend belief for an Italian Job style heist (which the plot isn't).

In essence, you've got nothing crypto about the plot, except the vehicle of the scam: the ICO, and, as Bitconnect proves, doesn't even need to be a crypto or a blockchain even to succeed. Modus operandi is that of a ponzi, so you already have superior films out there (that recent one on Bernie Madoff is one I recall most easily).

Instead of an ICO, it would be more believable if IEO is conducted in one of the best and top crypto exchange of the world convincing the top honchos that the project is very legit and must be supported while at the same time silencing (or killing) some people who know the truth of the matter. There should be a figure coming from SEC who is handsome and so charismatic and he will be the one conducting the investigation and uncovering the whole truth...and in the end this guy will almost be killed by the 11 renowned cryptoers.

It will be depends on how the director's bring this movie into life,the plot might be not that interesting but if well known actors and directors will contribute to this movie it will then attracts movie goers to take a move and watch it, hope it will not be the same with the latest movie about crypto where I didn't find any convincing factors to have Larger audience.

So that's just a reminder to all those people that believe that Craig Wright is a real satoshi that every time someone loudly says that he is a creator of blockchain that suddenly decided to break his silence and start saying different unbelievable bullshit that is definetely gona end up with some scamcoins (like it happens with BCH) or in this case exit scam. And all those attempts to renew the project are just attempts to advocate themselves in order not to get in jail.

Let's made here a thread about movies
"Now you see my coins" would be an adventure movie about group of illusionists who are attempting to hack the biggest exchange (let's call it "Binafex" for example) on live-stream

The OP (quoted below) has been amended and will continue to change as new ideas are presented.


IEO sounds plausable.

As for the [handsome] SEC dude, he could be in on the act, in partnership with the fakesatoshi.


That's a given along with cameo appearances of actors/actresses playing themselves who were conned to attached themselves to the fictitious IEO.


Not envisioning a Ponzi et al., but an outright scam program being advanced.

A working idea is a project having the ticket symbol VAQ for Virtual Reality/AI (Artificial Intelligence)/Quantum Computers, inspired by https://www.quora.com/Of-all-the-new-technologies-blockchain-AI-VR-AR-Quantum-Computing-and-IoT-which-most-realistically-will-have-the-biggest-impact-commercially-in-the-next-5-years:

The title could be simple but the story flow must be unique.
It would be better if good a good director and artists would portray the roles.
It should be a meaningful movie that could be informative and catchy to most crypto lovers.
It would be a hit for most people who know about cryptocurrency and its controversies.

What is this for btw? are you (and your team) gonna make a film or is this just for fun? 'cause you can't just add whatever idea that comes to your mind, you have to consider your available resources too

Just entertaining a brainfart is all, bud, with it having nothing to do with YTC.

A movie about ICO Scams, nothing new thought but its a movie. anyway, I think Satoshi in ICO can be a title. there are already a lot of movies which has a similar concept of course not with cryptocurrency but they are similar. but still, we need more and more Stuff for our society like a movie is a good idea.

Inspired by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Producers_(musical) ...


1: We write the worse White Paper ever, complete with grammatical errors.
2: We hire the worse crypto PR firm.
3: We raise $20B. ... One for each of the Satoshi 11 with the rest going to secondary accomplices and perhaps a charity.
4: We hire real actors and famous people who previously loaned their names to failed crypto projects.
5: At the end of the fundraising round, all the crooks plan on retiring in different parts of the world, living under aliases.

If it would be just for fun, make sure that it would be stated upon launching because people might just get confused or might interpret it the wrong way. However, I love the idea of being creative about the blockchain technology. It's not also easy to create a plot twist about Satoshi and cryptocurrency.

Not planning on conducting a real crowdfunding. That's just the premise of the movie.

Interesting. Such a movie needs to include big names like McAfee and Craig Wright who made fake claims about Satoshi all over the Internet. They could be the villains. Am a big fan of the Oceans series myself(Except Oceans 8 which was alright) which is why I would love to see someone make such a movie.

The idea is great but it would also depends on the director on how they would make it attractive.
It would be another suspense movie about crypto ,
It is great that we are having crypto as part of the movie but don't you think those negative things on the movie would make other people to stay away from crypto?

Not too shabby. It would be a great addition to any movie lovers collection.

Didn't think of that, akin to how negative things like fiat being used in movies make people stay away from the US dollar.

I like it. If it's a comedy, the coin should have an unfortunate acronym / symbol, like VAG.

I want to do casting:

Vince Vaughn and Jeremy Piven as the project masterminds
Jon Hamm as the square SEC agent
Kevin Hart as the bad promoter / marketing director
Nick Nolte as the off-his-rocker CEO
Will Ferrell as the naive angel investor
Aubrey Plaza as the social media expert / Vince Vaughan love interest
Ben Stiller as the eccentric hacker
Owen Wilson as the smarmy spokesperson
Ken Jeong as the over-the-top Chinese stereotype investor
Kumail Nanjiani as the website developer / IT tech (also a stereotype but he resents it)

With cameos by

Tom Cruise - SEC director who unwittingly approves the project over Jon Hamms objections

Mel Brooks - Satoshi Nakamoto

I love the idea of Mel Brooks appearing at the very end of the movie alluding to the quasi-fact that he's Satoshi.

If not a comedy, then 3 times throughout the movie we see Mel Brooks eating a pizza.

Another actor to consider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Harrelson

VAQ is pronounced Vac as in Vacuum cleaner, sucking money from Investardz (pl. & sg.; a term actually used in the movie to refer to the marks/investors).

Yeah I mean who better to be a surprise Satoshi than a 91 year old Jewish man?


Hmm... Woody, Woody... OK I know: he's the President of the United States. Also a cameo. Maybe he bestows Vince Vaughn with a Medal of Honor at the end of the movie. Jeremy Piven isn't around anymore because he was offed by the Russian mafia.


Got it. Sounds good. Let's make a script!

That's the spirit!

For starters we'll conduct a Kickstarter campaign to raise a few thousand dollars for pen, paper and a typewriter.

Then we'll exit scam, splitting the money, whereupon some crypto dude comes forth with a promise to make the movie, but unbeknownst to anybody, we're the new crypto dude going for a bigger payday, exit scamming again, then once again we return and amass a much larger sum of money to make the movie, but this time we go ahead and make it upon realizing that it'll be a hit.

Thus, it starts out as a scam then another scam to not a scam to make a movie about a crypto scam. The Producer's Mel Brooks would be proud of us.

Back to the movie idea and thinking out loud ...

The funds start pouring into a bitcoin wallet address, of which the private key was lost just prior to the exit scam. So somehow a loan was procured using the address as collateral where the BTC didn't have to be moved. Meanwhile, VAQ starts mooning, it being all the rage across the US and abroad. Of course there has to be conference where the following happens ...


The scammers opted to sell all the VAG coin, not keeping any for themselves cuz their thinking was they weren't going to be around later anyway.

So they procure a loan as outlined above and are now forced to build the empire that they design to have fail, but it doesn't fail and continues to gain support due to hire what they wrongly assumed was a piss-ass PR firm operated by Mormons.

The above seems to be counter to what was originally envisioned but like I said I'm just thinking out loud is all.

have you watched the first series of the TV show called "startup"

No, but I remember when it first made the scene.

Anybody else have ideas re the plot et al. of the proposed movie?

if I were a movie director, I would create a movie with the title: "ICO: The Big Opportunity for the Scammers"

The story would focus on 5 scammers who were very poor, but had a great dream of becoming very rich.

synopsis:

5 scammers who lived in their parents' house, sit in a bar and drink beers, talk about how to become rich, and decide to search on google "how to make money on the internet" and come across bitcoin and ICOs, so they search about ICOs and decide to take advantage of the regulatory fragility that the crypto market has.

Create a website with fake team

Create a plagiarized whitepaper

They created a copy/paste project and stole 400 million dollars

Months later, investors find that they have been cheated and report to the police and the police start looking for the 5 scammers.

the 5 scammers knowing that the police are looking for them, decide to separate and each of them travels to a different country... and then is only develop the history of the search of the 5 scammers.

Kickstarter campaign??! We'll obviously have to make our own ICO, complete with Ethereum token. Maybe we should make a pre ICO to gather funds to launch the real ICO as well.


I had an idea to make an obviously fake ICO, with a white paper comprised 90% from the bitcoin white paper, using A-list celebrities as team members. It sounded good in my head but I've been too busy to actually get around to doing it.

NOW WE'RE TALKIN'! Talkin' lame! Hell, even the title sucks. Who the fuck would pay to see such a movie when what you outlined has actually been none in real life thousands of times? Hell, we can go to a sub section of this forum and see a brand new scam being advanced echoing your idea.

it would be a very good movie and besides that no one would have to pay anything, it would be a movie to raise awareness about the dangers of  scam ICOs. Have you seen any movie about Scam ICOs? I have not seen yet. people tend to understand better when watching movies.

The movie with the title adding 11 to it does not have the viewer connecting it to oceans 11 because most dont see it as involved with theft or any wrong doing in the criminal world. And I dont think it will appeal to their audience in this manner.
I do think a movie about ico and these new ieo would be more interesting then the same old lets try and make a movie about crypto and money laundering. Because with their last movie about it they fell flat with it not doing anything to advance anything thats not already known by the general public about cryptocurrency.

Fairly nice post, bud.

And we can't forget a cameo appearance by the real Satoshi Nakamoto tending his opium field ...

I'm just gonna leave this here:

https://www.ccn.com/hollywood-producer-bitcoin-flick/amp