Titanic star to play lead role in film about OneCoin crypto pyramid

Oscar-winning Kate Winslet will play the lead role in the film about the OneCoin cryptocurrency pyramid. The actress will also serve as a producer of the picture, reports Deadline.

The film Fake! (“Fake!”) is based on the unpublished book by Jen MacAdam and Douglas Thompson, which tells the real story of MacAdam’s involvement in OneCoin. The book will be offered to publishers at the Frankfurt Book Fair, which opens on October 14.

The $4 billion OneCoin cryptocurrency pyramid was founded in 2014 by Ruja Ignatova together with Sebastian Greenwood. For more on the scam of the decade, read ForkLog:

The Scam of the Century: how a doctor of legal science organized the OneCoin pyramid and disappeared with billions of euros

MacAdam became a victim of OneCoin and founded a support group for victims. She, her friends and family invested in and lost about $300,000 in the Ponzi scheme.

MacAdam will be executive producer of the film about the pyramid; Scott Burns will serve as director and screenwriter. He is known as the screenwriter of The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), The Informant! (2009) and Contagion (2011). Winslet starred in the latter.

Earlier, New Regency Television International announced a series about OneCoin founder Ruja Ignatova based on the BBC podcast The Missing Crypto Queen.

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