According to Deadline, Apple Original Films has successfully acquired the distribution rights to Adam McKay’s long-in-development biographical drama film Bad Blood, after several months of negotiations. Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence has been attached for the leading role since the project was first announced in 2016, where Legendary originally won the rights to the project in a bidding war against multiple studios.
The acquisition comes ahead of McKay and Lawrence’s forthcoming sci-fi comedy film Don’t Look Up which is slated for a limited theatrical release this Friday, December 10 and will be available for streaming on December 24 on Netflix.
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Bad Blood will be based on the acclaimed nonfiction book by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter John Carreyrou titled Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Start Up. The film will chronicle the rise and downfall of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who became the youngest richest self-made billionaire due to her blood testing startup.
Holmes is currently facing a dozen felony fraud charges. The Stanford dropout’s company was valued at $9 billion until an investigation proved its technology said to reinvent health care was unproven.
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The Bad Blood pic will be written and directed by McKay. It will be a co-production between Apple Studios and Legendary. Lawrence and Justine Polsky are producing through their Excellent Cadaver banner along with Hyperobject Industries’ McKay and Kevin Messick.
