Netflix acquires rights to docuseries on notorious Wall Street con artist Bernie Madoff

The streaming giant Netflix seems to be expanding its slate of true crime stories. It has now nabbed the docuseries on Bernie Madoff from Joe Berlinger. Bernie Madoff, who died recently, was a fraudster and financier who ran one of the largest Ponzi scams, worth $64.8 billion and managed to fool several investors before the scam came into light in 2008 in America. Madoff was then sentenced to an imprisonment of 150 years.

RadicalMedia and Joe Berlinger of Paradise Lost and Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich fame will be behind the show. The yet-to-be-titled series promises “unique access to victims, whistleblowers, investigators, and archives” related to Madoff to tell a tale about big money, greed and a broken system that allowed him to singlehandedly manipulate financial markets. He was also once the chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange. The production has also acquired rights to Jim Campbell’s book Madoff Talks: Uncovering the Untold Story Behind the Most Notorious Ponzi Scheme in History. Campbell will reportedly be featured in the series. 

The series will be directed and executive produced by Berlinger and his company Third Eye Motion Picture Company in association with RadicalMedia. The other executive producers of the show will be Jon Doran, Jon Kamen, Jen Isaacson and showrunner Samantha Grogin. The series marks the latest collaboration of Berlinger and Netflix after he directed several documentaries for the OTT player. His earlier documentaries for Netflix include Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich, Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel and Murder Among the Mormons.

Madoff has already been a subject of countless documentaries, news reports and two projects - Madoff, starring Richard Dreyfuss, a mini-series of 2016, which aired on ABC; and The Wizard of Lies, a film which starred Robert De Niro.