“The Infinite Machine,” a Movie About Ethereum and Vitalik Buterin, Will Be Part of the Metaverse

An ongoing full-feature movie project, “The Infinite Machine,” aims to reproduce the story behind the world’s second-largest digital asset, Ethereum, and its creators. With the movie set to become the first-ever NFT-financed film, one of the producing companies, Versus Entertainment, recently announced that Decentraland and Lumiere were on board to host the movie in the metaverse.

In April this year, the creative team announced that the movie would be produced by Oscar-nominated director Ridley Scott, who is world-renowned for overseeing such classic titles as “Blade Runner” and “Gladiator“.

A Crypto Drama

“The Infinite Machine” is a movie adapted from financial journalist and cryptocurrency expert Camilla Russo’s book. In the fast-paced read, the author details the wild and often hapless adventures of a team of “hippy-anarchists”, reluctantly led by an ambivalent visionary, to make a super-charged, global network.

“The Infinite Machine” tells the story of Vitalik Buterin, the controversial co-founder of Ethereum, who, as a supremely gifted nineteen-year-old, convinced a crack group of coders to join him in his quest. First conceptualized by Buterin in 2013, the platform officially went live in 2015 with eight co-founders, including Gavin Wood and Charles Hoskinson, who later respectively went on to found Polkadot and Cardano.

The storyline explores the brilliant innovation and reckless greed unlocked and unleashed by the platform, and the consequences surrounding the frenzy as it grew⁠ — the increased regulatory scrutiny, incipient Wall Street interest, and the founding team’s effort to scale the Ethereum platform enough to allow it to eventually become accessible to the masses.

The movie will be written and directed by Shyam Madiraju, along with Ridley Scott, Tom Moran, and Vera Meyer of Scott Free, producing alongside Alejandro Miranda of Versus Entertainment. According to the project roadmap, a script for the movie should be finalized by Q3 this year.

“It’s incredibly exciting to have Ridley Scott and the crew at Scott Free produce the movie of “The Infinite Machine” alongside us. I can’t imagine a better team to turn the riveting story about the people behind the most revolutionary technology since the internet into a feature film that will capture the hearts of our generation,” enthused Russo.

NFT Collection to Fund the Movie

The movie aims to be the first fully NFT-funded feature movie, as the producers are financing much of the process by selling an NFT Collection. The collection in question is a colorful exploration of Ethereum logos, and is the fruit of the collaborative efforts of 36 emerging artists from Cuba, Argentina, Venezuela, Kenya, Australia, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Honduras, India, Mexico, Spain, and the U.S.