Casey Affleck and Pete Davidson Join Doug Liman to Chase the Man Who Invented Bitcoin

Published 08/28/2025, 9:29 PM EDT

Hollywood loves a good myth. From caped crusaders to cursed dolls, the industry thrives on turning mysteries into million-dollar stories. Now, one of the greatest enigmas of the digital age is luring even Casey Affleck and Pete Davidson into its orbit. Forget haunted houses or multiverse chaos, this time, the ghost is financial, whispered about in forums and worshiped like a cyber messiah. And yes, it seems the chase is drawing its hunters closer.

While superheroes punch villains in spandex, this mystery involves spreadsheets, passwords, and wallets that make Wall Street look like a thrift store clearance rack.

Casey Affleck and Pete Davidson team up for a mystery with billion-dollar shadows

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Doug Liman, director of The Bourne Identity and Mr. & Mrs. Smith, is set to direct Killing Satoshi, a conspiracy thriller unraveling the identity of Bitcoin’s elusive creator. Enter Casey Affleck and Pete Davidson, the unlikely duo cast to chase the myth. This is spycraft dipped in stand-up smoke, a world where the only ticking bomb is a password no one remembers anymore.

The screenplay, penned by Nick Schenk, traces an elite cabal desperate to bury Satoshi Nakamoto’s truth. Variety revealed the film is pitched as political intrigue meets high-tech espionage, a digital The Da Vinci Code where Bitcoin is the chalice. Doug Liman frames it as a David versus Goliath showdown, where unlikely antiheroes collide with the planet’s most powerful forces over the eternal question of what money really is and who controls it.

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While shadowy cabals bury truths and wallets hold billions, it somehow takes an Oscar brooder and a tattooed jester to turn financial ghosts into cinematic chaos.

Casey Affleck and Pete Davidson turn unlikely partners into cinematic spectacle

Casey Affleck, Oscar winner and professional sad man from Manchester by the Sea, brings his signature intensity. In contrast, Pete Davidson, comedy’s tattooed chaos agent, brings a cigarette-laced smirk to the chase. It is grief king meets Gen Z clown, which oddly makes sense in a movie about money no one can touch. Their dynamic is set to balance espionage gravitas with accidental memes, giving Hollywood another odd couple it never knew it desperately needed.

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Pete Davidson is expecting his first child with model Elsie Hewitt, while Casey Affleck, formerly married to actress Summer Phoenix, now dates Caylee Cowan. Two very different men, one who overshares through comedy, one who broods through silence, now unite under Doug Liman’s lens to unravel the mystery of a cyber ghost. If Satoshi Nakamoto is watching, perhaps from a café in Tokyo or a basement in Omaha, even he might pause to see this movie.

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What are your thoughts on Casey Affleck and Pete Davidson teaming up to chase Bitcoin’s biggest ghost? Is this casting genius or pure chaos? Let us know in the comments below.

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