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Apple Original Films has boarded Adam McKay and Jennifer Lawrence‘s high-profile Bad Blood movie about the rise and fall of disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes.
McKay is writing, directing and producing the feature film, which will star Lawrence as Holmes, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur who is currently on trial for fraud. Lawrence is also a producer on the project.
The movie will chart how Holmes built Theranos, the blood-testing startup that made her the youngest female self-made billionaire, before she and her company unraveled.
Bad Blood is based on the book Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist John Carreyrou.
Apple Studios will produce in association with Legendary Pictures, which first picked up the project in 2016.
Lawrence will next be seen in McKay’s Don’t Look Up, the star-packed dark comedy that also stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill, Cate Blanchett and Mark Rylance. Netflix opens Don’t Look Up in select theaters on Dec. 10, two weeks ahead of its Dec. 23 debut on the streamer.
Bad Blood will be produced by McKay and Kevin Messick through their Hyperobject Industries, which has a multiyear first-look deal for scripted features with Apple. Lawrence and Justine Polsky will produce through Excellent Cadaver. Will Ferrell will produce through Gary Sanchez Productions, the banner formerly run by Ferrell and McKay.
The expanding lineup of event films from Apple Studios includes Antoine Fuqua’s Emancipation, starring Will Smith; Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro; and Spirited, a musical rendition of Charles Dickens’ classic holiday story starring Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds and Octavia Spencer; among others.
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