By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Filmmaker Adam McKay’s upcoming film “Bad Blood”, starring Jennifer Lawrence, has been picked up by Apple Original Films.
McKay will write, direct and produce the movie, which is able to function Lawrence as Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes.
Theranos was as soon as one in all Silicon Valley’s most promising startups, with its multi-billion greenback valuation and guarantees of a blood testing system that claimed to have the ability to carry out complicated assessments with only a drop of blood.
The firm, which was at one level price USD 9 billion, misplaced belief with the general public after an investigation by The Wall Street Journal poked holes in its claims about its new blood testing system.
The film relies on Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley from Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist John Carreyrou, who broke the preliminary story.
“Bad Blood” shall be produced by Apple Studios, in affiliation with Legendary Pictures.
McKay and Lawrence are presently getting reward for his or her first movie collectively — “Don’t Look Up”.
Also starring Leonardo DiCaprio, the film follows two low-level astronomers who try to warn everybody about an approaching comet that may destroy Earth.
The movie additionally options Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Timothee Chalamet, Tyler Perry, Mark Rylance, Jonah Hill, Ariana Grande and others.
It will debut on Netflix on December 24.
