‘Killing Satoshi’: $70M Bitcoin Film Starring Casey Affleck Will Make Heavy Use of AI

An upcoming full-length film produced with artificial intelligence will star in crypto and its main asset, Bitcoinaccording to a report of The cover.

‘Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi’ directed by “Bourne Identity” director Doug Liman, it will feature a star-studded cast including Gal Gadot, Casey Affleck, Isla Fisher and Pete Davidson, with a budget of $70 million – and a big help from AI tools.

Designed as a thriller focused on Bitcoin and the search for its pseudonymous creator, Satoshi NakamotoAccording to the report, the film will follow a plot spanning continents and around 200 locations with different climates. But none of it was filmed on location.

“We decided very early on to use AI,” said producer Ryan Kavanaugh The cover.

“We budgeted what it would cost in practice, and it cost well over $300 million,” he said. “We realized we could reduce costs by using some of the AI ​​tools available.”

The film was shot in a former car showroom that they wrapped in a gray screen, earning it the nickname ‘the gray box’. In the box, as seen in the behind-the-scenes set photos The cover—the settings and lighting were produced with AI, but the performances were all the work of real actors, without any modification.

“The performance is captured in a very unique way using our AI protocols,” Kavanaugh told the publication. “So when the scene is generated, the AI ​​takes the execution and builds everything within the performance framework.”

According to the report, “Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi” is expected to be sold to potential buyers at the Cannes International Film Festival next week.

The shopping for the film is timely, given the resurgent conversation surrounding the identity of Bitcoin’s creator. Last week one New York Times expose named major Bitcoin personality and Blockstream CEO Adam Back as the creator of the best crypto asset.

Back denied the claimand called the piece a “combination of coincidence and similar statements from people with similar experiences and interests.”

In 2024, an HBO documentary titled “Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery” said that BTC core developer Peter Todd was really the creator. As for the claim, Todd publicly declared that he was “not Satoshi”.

Another documentary, ‘Finding Satoshi’, is expected to attempt to expose the Bitcoin builder debuts next week.

Bitcoin’s mysterious founder disappeared from the internet in 2011, two years after the network’s launch. Their reported stock of assets – almost 1.1 million BTC This is evident from data from Arkham Intelligence– is now valued at approximately $81 billion.

Bitcoin is up 0.7% over the past 24 hours, recently trading around $74,900. It remains more than 40% away from last October’s all-time high of $126,080.