In short
- A production company has protected the rights to change the lives of James Howells into countless media companies, including a docuseries.
- Howells says he lost a hard drive with $ 750 million to BTC more than ten years ago.
- For years he lobbyed in vain to search the landfill where he claims that the drive is still buried.
The story of a Wales who believes that he was accidentally thrown away $ 750 million of Bitcoin, is now ready to get the Hollywood treatment.
On Wednesday, a new production company in Los Angeles, Lebul, announced that it obtained the exclusive rights to tell James Howells’ story, an IT engineer who in 2009 mined 8,000 BTC the tokens were effectively worthless and then they lost.
Howells claims that a former lover in 2013 threw away a hard drive with the tokens. They are worth nearly a billion dollars. In recent years, Howells has fought a failed fight to search the Wales pale place where he is on – somewhere – his digital treasure is still buried.
Last month, a British Court of Appeal issued a final ruling Recommend him not to sift through the waste location in search of his hard disk. Howells condemned the judgment as a tactic of British elites to wipe the affair “under the carpet”. He says that he is now planning to buy the landfill when it will close next year.
In the meantime, the Welshman is now trying to overcome a new statistically impressive obstacle: his story is changing into a controversial docuseries.
Howells told Decrypt He has received “hundreds of offers” from “all kinds of award -winning production companies” over the years to turn his saga into a documentary. But in the end he went with Lebul – partly, he said, because the company is willing to help launch a worldwide media campaign to support my broader objective of acquiring the dockway landfill. “
Lebul says that it intends to change the story of Howell’s failed mission to search his local landfill in ‘A daring, multi-platform media company, including a premium docuseries, podcast and an extensive short-term content and marketing strategy on social platforms. “
“This is not just content,” said Reese van Allen, the president of the company of Uncripted Entertainment, in a statement. “It is a live action technical thriller with almost a billion dollars on the line and Lebul is proud to bring it to the world.”
Howells is convinced that the media company will not only do rights to its experiences, but also affects more universal themes.
“The documentary will uncover the environment of the Newport municipal council and shed light on the long-term financial obligations that taxpayers experience with maintaining a closed landfill,” he said, “while also introducing a worldwide story built around technology, recovery and digital ownership.”
Additional reporting by Mat di Salvo
Published by Andrew Hayward
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