Last year’s collapse of the rotten-to-the-core crypto exchange is the inspiration for an upcoming animated comedy called “FORTUN3' from toonstarhq starring nottjmiller
Announced at Comic-Con, “FORTUN3,” which premieres this fall, will serve as a kind of origin story for SBF and FTX – the products of an easy-money culture mixed with unbridled tech optimism, explains John Attanasio, co-founder and CEO of Toonstar. Besides the FTX parody, viewers can expect references to other business boondoggles driven by egomaniacs with a messiah complex . T.J. Miller of “Silicon Valley” fame will voice the SBF clone.
“[The series] is based on a real-life cast of characters that lend themselves very well to cartoons,” Attanasio told CoinDesk. “We're going to be taking the stuff that you see in the headlines and then bring that into the series.” “FORTUN3” is the latest in Toonstar’s “interactive series,” which add a generous helping of Web3 to give fans avenues to participate in the creative experience. The studio treats community participation via NFT-based applications as its key differentiator – an idea ready for a wider audience, Attanasio believes.
“Through the narrative, there’s going to be a lot of universal themes that hopefully will appeal to [people] not more versed in crypto,” he said. “We also believe that entertainment can be one of the use cases that can helpIn the case of “FORTUN3,” viewers will be able to level-up their involvement in the series via an online game – which users can access via an– which will be set in the same universe.
Besides Miller, the “FORTUN3” cast includes Jon Heder and actress/model Amber Rose in its supporting cast. Heder co-founded Verified Labs, a creative agency that partners with Toonstar on Web3 projects. Their last collaboration was “
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