Fox has brought on board none other than Joel and Ethan Coen for its film about Ross William Ulbricht, the man behind darknet market The Silk Road who was charged in 2015 with money laundering, computer hacking, conspiracy to traffic narcotics, and procuring murder.
Originally called Silk Road and being worked on by best-selling author Dennis Lehane, the film has been rechristened simply Dark Web for the moment, according to THR.
The prosecutor said they believed that none of the six contracted murders-for-hire took place despite Ulbricht having paid $730,000 for them.
Ulbricht was ultimately cleared of procuring murder but the evidence was factored into his sentence.