They are going for a theatre release rather than releasing it on the OTT platforms? I want to see how honest their depiction of Silk Road and DPR is. Perhaps they should mention that the real reason why the FBI went after Silk Road is because the Mexican drug cartels were losing money due to competition from the dark market.. or perhaps that is too much to ask for. I hope at least they would show what happened after the arrest, including some of the rogue FBI agents stealing BTC from the silk road wallet and transferring them to their personal wallets.

It seems like it's going to be a good movie. This quote doesn't seem to hit me in a good way though: "Amazon, for drugs". We could make assumptions and that might've been the main public selling point of the Silk Road, but how sure are we that that was literally Ross Ulbricht's intention?

Don't get your hopes up lol.

This movie was not produced by a big production house and given the pandemic season, I don't think that it will receive much attention within the United States. Less than 63,000 views in three weeks, despite being posted in the official YouTube channel of the Lionsgate Movies is quite disappointing for the production team. That said, I don't want to comment much about the content, before I get to watch the movie.

BTW, did the movie producers got permission from Ross Ulbricht? In the movie they are using his real name and they are claiming that the story is based on what actually happened. So if Ross hasn't given them permission, they can't really release this movie. Everyone seems to have forgotten about Ross. A pardon from Donald Trump was his last opportunity to be freed. But now it is 100% sure that he will die in prison without ever seeing the outside world again. That is the price you pay, when you go against the authorities.

After a while, everyone forgets about these guys. I hardly see anyone talking about Aaron Swartz nowadays. On the other hand, the individual who is responsible for his death (Carmen Ortiz) is now in a very powerful position.  

Sounds bad but that is the cold reality. Snowden, Assange, Ross or anyone else who puts themselves on the line to go against the establishment inevitably end up isolated or incarcerated. Those are just the cases that gain attention. The numerous whistleblowers and truth-seekers within society/ organizations who choose to do the "right thing", almost always pay the price for not compromising with their consciences.

Just hope that the movie will actually treat him as the brilliant, idealistic kid he was who ended up playing someone else's game of intimidation and reprisal.

Snowden, Assange.etc still have a chance. They have a lot of people supporting them. That is not the case of Ross Ulbricht. Even if he has any supporters, those people are not going to come out in the open for the fear of reprisals. The FBI has put all sort of charges against Ross, such as drug trafficking, murder, money laundering, blackmail.etc. Anyone who supports him will be quickly branded as a supporter of illegal narcotics trade. Snowden and Assange doesn't carry such baggage. Snowden is living in Moscow as a fugitive, while Assange is currently fighting extradition. They are in a much better position when compared to Ross.

I beg to differ...

Ross Ulbricht's was a focus point on this forum for years and a lot of the forum users used his site and some of them even petitioned for his release. So it is very relevant and also information that a lot of people would want to know about... I being one of them, because I surely would want to see this movie.

We had several movies before where Bitcoin was at the center of criminal actions, but this one might help to answer some questions .. hopefully it is based on facts and not fiction. (Which I doubt, because it is all about Silkroad and Ross Ulbricht's)

OP, thank you for the heads up .... I hope this one will do justice to his story.  

You don't see SilkRoad and Bitcoin as having something in common? SR would have not been possible without Bitcoin, and the second wave of adoption, after the first pioneers, was SR users. Bitcoin started being in the news thanks to SR.

If that is the case, I would suggest that people be warned about such movie.

By the way, the movie must not expose innocent/harmless Bitcoiners to harm with what it tries to potray, or get people to start turning against Bitcoin unnecessarily.
I believe the transparency of Bitcoin (which fiat doesn't offer) made things easy for the security agencies... and it's transparent to the public too. This is the kind of thing a Just society should promote not resist.

The problem with bitcoin is that almost everyone including normal people, investors and even some of the core dev team still believe bitcoin is usuable for criminals or protects them.

Bitcoin is not and was never usefull for criminals or designed for them. Everyone just gets it wrong.
Over 400 darknet markets have been taken down and many other cyber criminals just because of bitcoin and not their infrastructure.

Its also not anymous. Its not anarchistic and its not to destroy banks and govermnets. The goal was never any of them.

Sadly all this things the current anarchistic BTC dev team is trying to achieve. To protect and allow criminal activites. But they don't have a bloody clue about anything.

BTC is not Bitcoin. Bitcoin is desgined to be cash and money. BTC is also not cash nor money.

Bitcoin was designed to make everyones life better and make criminal acitivies harder and more and more less possible and to end corruption.
Corruption which causes the daily wars, hate and problems which affects and harms everyone every single day.

Beside that everyday tens of billions of dollars in fiat are used, earned and spend for highly criminal activities. From the streets up to the banks. Without anyone noticing or anyone doing or can doing anything against it.

You can't do that on a transperent distributed and protected by economics ledger or blockchain.

And everyone is crying about bitcoin but doesn't get that it is the opposite of illegal and it doesn't allow criminal activities.

I already watched the movie and I talked about it few days ago in other SilkRoad topic, that means imdb release date is wrong
Not a bad movie to watch especially if you are interested in Bitcoin history, but I think they added to many fantasy elements and they presented Ross character as some kind of lunatic.

Anyone knows what is Ross Ulbricht bitcointalk account?
Maybe silkroad?

This post is interesting, Silk road and Bitcointalk. How it played a role in its rise and fall.