Apple Original Films has landed Adam McKay and Jennifer Lawrence’s high-profile Bad Blood movie chronicling the rise and fall of disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. Deadline was the first to report confirmation of this long-rumored project finally finding a path to production and release.
The movie will tell the true story of how Holmes built a healthcare technology company into a breakthrough corporation that was promising to revolutionize blood testing. Holmes became the youngest and wealthiest self-made billionaire before she and her company unraveled. Bad Blood is based on the 2018 book of the same name, written by investigative journalist John Carreyou–who originally broke the story of widespread fraud in the company in 2015.
McKay will write, direct, and produce the film, which stars Lawrence as Holmes–the Silicon Valley entrepreneur who is currently on trial for alleged fraud. Lawrence will also produce. Apple Studios will produce the project in association with Legendary Pictures, which first picked up the project in 2016.
Don’t Look Up, McKay’s natural-disaster satire film, will play in select theaters on December 10 before coming to Netflix on December 24. Lawrence also stars in the film, alongside a cast that also includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill, Cate Blanchett, and Tyler Perry. The film follows two scientists who must inform an indifferent world that an Earth-destroying asteroid is coming.
Earlier this year, it was announced that Amanda Seyfried is replacing Kate McKinnon to play Holmes in The Dropout–Hulu’s upcoming telling of the same Theranos story.