{"id":33170,"date":"2020-12-10T18:20:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T16:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=33170"},"modified":"2025-08-28T12:31:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T09:31:02","slug":"lionsgate-to-release-film-about-silk-road-founder-ross-ulbricht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/lionsgate-to-release-film-about-silk-road-founder-ross-ulbricht\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionsgate to release film about Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American media company Lionsgate has acquired the rights to the crime thriller &#8216;Silk Road&#8217;, based on the story of the Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht. The film is scheduled to premiere on February 19, 2021, Deadline reports.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The plot is based on David Kushner&#8217;s article &#8216;Dead End on Silk Road&#8217;, published in Rolling Stone. Viewers will see how the largest illegal marketplace Silk Road was built, and what led to Ulbricht&#8217;s arrest.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"zLJjGXn8w1\">\n<p>The History of Silk Road: How Bitcoin Elevated the Darknet Economy to a New Level<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"The History of Silk Road: How Bitcoin Elevated the Darknet Economy to a New Level \u2014 ForkLog\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/exclusive\/istoriya-silk-road-kak-bitkoin-vyvel-darknet-ekonomiku-na-novyj-uroven\/embed#?secret=pgGLIe6DVk#?secret=zLJjGXn8w1\" data-secret=\"zLJjGXn8w1\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The leading roles were played by Nick Robinson, known for the film &#8216;Jurassic World&#8217;, and Jason Clarke (&#8216;Terminator: Genisys&#8217;). The premiere was expected in April at the New York Film Festival, but was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, a court found Ross Ulbricht guilty of drug trafficking via Silk Road, conspiracy to traffic illegal substances, hacking computer networks and money laundering, as well as leading a criminal organization.<\/p>\n<p>In late May 2015, the founder of the darknet marketplace was sentenced to life imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, venture capitalist Tim Draper called for Ulbricht&#8217;s release. In March 2020, a petition with a similar demand addressed to the White House gathered 275,000 signatures.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, on November 3 the U.S. Department of Justice confiscated <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/u-s-authorities-seize-silk-road%e2%80%91linked-bitcoin-worth-more-than-1-billion-69370-btc\">related to Silk Road<\/a> 69,370 BTC.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American media company Lionsgate has acquired the rights to the crime thriller &#8216;Silk Road&#8217;, based on the story of the Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht. The film is scheduled to premiere on February 19, 2021, Deadline reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1331,1568,236],"class_list":["post-33170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-culture-and-art","tag-ross-ulbricht","tag-silk-road"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"27","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33171,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33170\/revisions\/33171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}