Netflix Announces New Crypto Comedy: “One Last Attempt”

Netflix is developing a new romantic comedy movie titled “One Last Attempt,” which centers on a divorced couple’s frantic attempt to recover a $35 million crypto fortune locked behind a forgotten wallet password.

Plot Summary

• The film’s premise is that a divorced couple, who originally won the crypto assets in a cruise competition, fell out and subsequently lost access to the wallet by forgetting the password.
• The couple is notified by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that they have only 48 hours to retrieve the $35 million before their claim on the funds expires.
• Jennifer Garner is set to star in and produce the movie.

Inspired by Real-Life Lost Crypto Cases

The movie’s plot is similar to several real-life incidents where significant crypto sums were lost due to forgotten passwords or discarded devices:

• Stefan Thomas: The former Ripple CTO has been locked out of an IronKey hard drive containing 7,002 Bitcoin (valued at roughly $640 million at the time of the article’s publication) after using eight of the ten permitted password attempts.
• James Howells: An IT worker from Wales who mined approximately 8,000 Bitcoin (valued at over $700 million) lost the private keys when his wife accidentally threw away the hard drive during a clean-up in 2013. Howells has been repeatedly denied permission to excavate the landfill site.

Expanding Netflix’s Crypto Content

“One Last Attempt” adds a comedic spin to Netflix’s growing library of crypto-related content, which has previously focused on crimes and scandals. Other titles in this category include:

• The action film Money Plane (2020).
• The documentary Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King (2022).
• The 2024 documentary Biggest Heist Ever, detailing the $4.5 billion Bitcoin laundering case involving Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan from the 2016 Bitfinex hack.

The release date for “One Last Attempt” has not yet been confirmed.