Alex Gibney has a new documentary out called 'The Inventor' that tracks the downfall of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. There's also a book still burning up the bestseller list and a hit podcast out, both about Holmes.
Elizabeth Holmes, here in a scene from a new HBO documentary"The Inventor," has captivated readers, podcast listeners and Hollywood directors.
Then, a little over a year later, when Carreyrou was in the final stages of writing “Bad Blood,” he was approached by filmmaker Alex Gibney about cooperating on an HBO documentary about Theranos. Given Gibney’s pedigree — he was nominated for an Oscar for his 2005 expose “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” and won one three years later for his military torture doc “Taxi to the Dark Side” — Knopf felt a collaboration could “be a boon for book sales,” Carreyrou said.
“I think one of the reasons Elizabeth was so convincing was because when she’s making her pitch, she’s not Bernie Madoff thinking, ‘I’m feeding a bunch of [bull],’ ” Gibney continued. “She’s saying, ‘I believe this. I have the mission. I’ve been to the mountaintop.’ I believe in the moment — I never met her — but in the moment she was making the pitch, she believed it. I’m certain she was also was being given the information that the machinery was not working.
Rebecca Jarvis, the journalist behind “The Dropout” podcast, also tried to secure an interview with Holmes. Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou, left, with Theranos whistle-blowers Erika Cheung and Tyler Shultz at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
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