"Joel and Ethan Coen have signed on to write the script for the tech thriller Dark Web.
The Oscar-winning duo were brought on to take a second crack at the screenplay, following author Dennis Lehane’s original draft, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The project is based on a two-part Wired magazine article by Joshua Bearman. It concerns the true story of how Ross William Ulbricht, a 29-year-old who built an Amazon-like online market for illegal goods (called the Silk Road), slowly morphed into an alleged murderous kingpin. The Hollywood Reporter teases that the story’s many twists call to mind the structure of the Coen brothers’ own Fargo."
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/oct/14/coen-brothers-silk-road-trial-film
The Oscar-winning duo were brought on to take a second crack at the screenplay, following author Dennis Lehane’s original draft, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The project is based on a two-part Wired magazine article by Joshua Bearman. It concerns the true story of how Ross William Ulbricht, a 29-year-old who built an Amazon-like online market for illegal goods (called the Silk Road), slowly morphed into an alleged murderous kingpin. The Hollywood Reporter teases that the story’s many twists call to mind the structure of the Coen brothers’ own Fargo."
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/oct/14/coen-brothers-silk-road-trial-film