Bro,
I'm Going
Rogue. — A true financial-crime thriller
He flipped for the FBI.
Then he turned the wire on them.
A fast, nasty, funny true-crime thriller about an offshore brokerage hustler who becomes the FBI's inside man on Wall Street — until prosecutors try to make him plead and he weaponizes the very recordings they taught him to make.
Who is
using whom?
- 01The flip.
- 02The second flip.
- 03The case that collapses.
A source-backed true story with a clean trailer hook.
The story world already has the elements producers look for.
- 01A flawed, charismatic lead with agency in every scene
- 02Undercover ops, hidden cameras, wires and backroom deals
- 03A DOJ/FBI pressure cooker with moral ambiguity baked in
- 04New York finance, Bahamas money, courtroom reversal
The reporting, the court record, the on-camera persona — all of it is already out there. We are not inventing a subject; we are dramatising one the press has been circling for years.
Two agents.
One office.
No lawyer.
This is the actual frame — pulled from his own office cameras — of the meeting that turned the whole story. Guy on one side of the desk, two FBI agents on the other, the Atlantic glinting out the window behind them.
Every scene that follows — the wire, the diner, the courtroom reversal — starts in this room.
Wall Street by wire.
Bahamas by yacht.
Nassau penthouse. SureTrader empire. Private jet on call. The boat, the club table, the bottle service. A Miss Universe contestant girlfriend. A Playmate ex. A rotating model entourage that knows him by first name at every door. The informant work happens inside this life — that contradiction is what the camera lives on.
Real headline. Real Mercedes. Real pool. He's barefoot in the photo. The kind of detail you cannot write — and the kind a trailer ends on.
The lifestyle isn't decoration. It's the cover story.
Guy Gentile
is the role actors chase.
Working-class kid. Day-trader. Offshore broker. Wannabe lawman. FBI cooperator. Defendant. Bahamas playboy running SureTrader from a Nassau penthouse — Miss Universe contestant on one arm, Playmate ex on the other, Page Six on speed dial — with a recorder in his pocket and a grievance that never shuts off.
The audience never fully trusts him. That is the point.
Everybody
wants control.
The story is a pressure system. Informant, handlers, prosecutors, targets and the tapes all pulling in different directions.
The drama is not whodunit.
It is who is using whom.
Every operation plays
like a set piece.
The procedural becomes personal. Each sting forces the audience to ask whether Guy is exposing crime or manufacturing it.
Three acts.
One escalating double-cross.
By the end, the informant is investigating the investigators.
Trailer moments already
in the reporting.
No invented spectacle required. The truth is cinematic.
Flashy. Funny.
Paranoid. True.
The movie should move like a caper and land like a betrayal.
Not a biopic. A pressure-cooker antihero thriller.
The audience
is ready.
Post-FTX, post-Madoff, post-GameStop — viewers have been trained to want financial villains who break the fourth wall. This is that movie, with a built-in second act no one sees coming.
A package-friendly movie
with a contained spine.
Front-load the
chain-of-title conversation.
1680 Vine Street, Suite 716, Los Angeles, CA 90028
June 11, 2019
Mintvestor, LLC c/o Hotchkiss & Associates
11 Broadway, Suite 741, New York, NY 10012
Attn: Jody Hotchkiss
Re: "BRO, I'M GOING ROGUE" — Notice of Extended Option
Reference is made to that certain Life Story Rights Agreement dated as of May 2017 between MINTVESTOR, LLC ("Owner") and LD DEVELOPMENT LLC (the "Company")...
Please find enclosed a check for Seventeen Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($17,500.00) representing the amount payable to Owner in connection with the Extended Option Period as set forth in Paragraph 3(b) of the Agreement.
Owner's signature confirms that the Initial Option Period ends on June 14, 2019 and the Extended Option Period shall commence on June 15, 2019 and run through and including December 15, 2020.
Sincerely, Eric W. Thompson, Esq.
Existing source package includes
- ▸Bloomberg Businessweek feature
- ▸Life Story Rights Agreement / extended option letter
- ▸Project title already associated with rights paperwork
- ▸Potential legal filings, recordings and subject interviews to assemble
The provided 2019 letter shows an extended option period running from June 15, 2019 through December 15, 2020. Current rights status, renewals, article rights, photos, audio and life-story clearances should be confirmed before producers rely on the package.
Let's package
the rogue version
of the
Wall Street
crime movie.
Production company, financier and writer-director conversations to develop the screenplay, verify chain-of-title and attach talent.
30-minute creative call + rights/materials review.
Then he flipped again.