Jared Leto in WeCrashed
(Picture: AppleTV+)You know the drill by now. A fast-rising entrepreneur or influencer unceremoniously falls from dizzy heights. First comes the long-read exposé. Next comes the podcast series. Then the book. Then the documentary. And, then, as sure as night turns into day, comes the star-studded biodrama from a streamer.
Fake heiress Anna Sorokin has just had the full works, thanks to Netflix’s Inventing Anna, and Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has just been played by Amanda Seyfried in The Dropout. (Jennifer Lawrence will play the deep-voiced biotechpreneur later this year.) Next on the conveyor belt is Adam Neumann, the glossy-haired, messiah-wannabe who co-founded WeWork, now played by Jared Leto in WeCrashed, released on AppleTV+ next week. His wife Rebekah – who is also Gwyneth Paltrow’s cousin, as we are reminded repeatedly – is earnestly played by Anne Hathaway.
