The Silk Road

Silk Road was established in February 2011 and until his arrest in October 2013 by the FBI, Ulbricht operated the site under the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts." He is currently serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole; a sentence that many people felt was unduly harsh. According to investigations by the FBI, Silk Road facilitated... anonymous channels for dealers to transact illegal goods and services most of which were drugs. The film is set to dwell largely on the aspects of the dark web platforms. According to some reports, the film will feature the alleged purchase of special services such as contract killings, an accusation that the FBI pointed at Dread Pirate Roberts. Many Silk Road users have since slammed these allegations on online forums as false. They deny the existence of such kinds of services claiming that Silk Road only facilitated the buying and selling of drugs. Currently, the true inner details of the Silk Road and Dread Pirate Roberts are still murky. As such, it is very likely that the film may not be 100% accurate as in the case with the majority of Hollywood movies that are based on true stories. The aforementioned "Snowden" was the recent testament to this. Also, the film will feature a part of the story that law enforcement agencies would rather prefer to stay low profiled. Ross Ulbricht was not the only individual to be implicated in the Silk Road. Two federal agents including Carl Force, a former DEA agent, were also charged with extorting and laundering bitcoins from the Silk Road platform and Ulbricht himself. It is important to note that this is not the beginning of the work on this film. The project started back in 2013, where Chernin Entertainment and Fox Studios enlisted Dennis Lehane to write the script for the movie. At the time it was titled Silk Road. Lehane himself is a bestselling author and has films such as "Shutter Island", "Gone Baby Gone", and "Mystic River" under his name. It is not clear what exactly prompted the changes or even if the new script is ...Read More