Portrait of Guy Gentile, the Wall Street trader turned FBI informant
REC · True financial-crime thriller

Bro,
I'm Going
Rogue. — A true financial-crime thriller

A true financial-crime thriller

He flipped for the FBI.
Then he turned the wire on them.

Feature · 110–120 min
Based on the Bloomberg Businessweek feature
02The one-line sell

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.

The question that drives every scene

Who is
using whom?

  • 01The flip.
  • 02The second flip.
  • 03The case that collapses.
03Source material
Bloomberg Businessweek article
Bloomberg Businessweek · feature

A source-backed true story with a clean trailer hook.

The story world already has the elements producers look for.

  1. 01A flawed, charismatic lead with agency in every scene
  2. 02Undercover ops, hidden cameras, wires and backroom deals
  3. 03A DOJ/FBI pressure cooker with moral ambiguity baked in
  4. 04New York finance, Bahamas money, courtroom reversal
04The lead

Guy Gentile
is the role actors chase.

Three passports

Working-class kid. Day-trader. Offshore broker. Wannabe lawman. FBI cooperator. Defendant. Man with a recorder in his pocket and a grievance that never shuts off.

Not a saint.
He is not asking the audience for permission.
Not a victim.
He understands the hustle because he lived in it.
Not an agent.
But he starts to believe he is one.

The audience never fully trusts him. That is the point.

05Character pressure map

Everybody
wants control.

The story is a pressure system. Informant, handlers, prosecutors, targets and the tapes all pulling in different directions.

GUYGENTILE
FBI Handlers
Praise. Pressure. Operational secrets.
DOJ / Prosecutors
The machine that still wants a plea.
Targets
Lawyers, promoters, rival traders.
The Tapes
Leverage that flips the case back on the government.
Family / Reality
The truth outside the fantasy.
The Audience
Choosing whom to believe scene by scene.

The drama is not whodunit. It is who is using whom.

06Undercover engine

Every operation plays
like a set piece.

The lure sting at a Manhattan members' club
STEP 01
Lure
Sell the fantasy of an untraceable trading algorithm.
Undercover wire recorder hidden in a jacket button
STEP 02
Wire
Hidden recorders. Button cams. Gift cards. Keys.
Signature arrest hug in a hotel lobby
STEP 03
Hug
The signature goodbye — then the arrest team moves.

The procedural becomes personal. Each sting forces the audience to ask whether Guy is exposing crime or manufacturing it.

07Feature structure

Three acts.
One escalating double-cross.

I
The Deal
White Plains tarmac arrest. Newark diner ultimatum. He says yes to the FBI because the alternative is prison.
II
Wall Street Underground
He learns to perform criminality on command. Core Club breakfasts. Fake algorithms. Bahamas meetings. The signature hug.
III
Rogue
The plea demand lands. He reveals the tapes, gets re-arrested, and fights the original case until the court tosses it.

By the end, the informant is investigating the investigators.

08Set pieces

Trailer moments already
in the reporting.

The Tarmac
SCENE 01
INT. PRIVATE JET — NIGHT
The Tarmac
Agents board the plane before anyone can get off.
The Diner
SCENE 02
INT. DINER — DAY
The Diner
Bacon cheeseburger. Diet Coke. Prison or cooperate.
The Private Club
SCENE 03
INT. CORE CLUB — MORNING
The Private Club
A jacket-pocket recorder at breakfast.
The Hug
SCENE 04
INT. HOTEL LOBBY — NIGHT
The Hug
A kiss on the cheek. Then the arrest team moves.
The Red Robin Tape
SCENE 05
INT. RED ROBIN — DAY
The Red Robin Tape
He records the handlers who trained him.
The Courtroom
SCENE 06
INT. COURTHOUSE — DAY
The Courtroom
The case collapses on limitations.

No invented spectacle required. The truth is cinematic.

09Tone & comps

Flashy. Funny.
Paranoid. True.

The movie should move like a caper and land like a betrayal.

The Wolf of Wall Street
$407M WW
Finance appetite. Bad-behavior propulsion.
The Informant!
$41M WW
Cooperator comedy with institutional stakes.
Billions
7 seasons
Prosecutor vs. trader psychological warfare.
American Hustle
$251M WW · 10 Oscar noms
Informants, performance, moral grime.
The Big Short
$133M WW · Best Adapted
Financial complexity made entertaining.
Catch Me If You Can
$352M WW
Charm as weapon.

Not a biopic. A pressure-cooker antihero thriller.

10Why now

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.

$8B
FTX collapse
Audience appetite for white-collar villains at all-time high.
#1
Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street
Netflix true-crime finance doc charted globally in 2023.
9 noms
The Dropout / Inventing Anna
Limited-series con-artist genre is a proven streamer play.
Meme era
GameStop, Hindenburg, Archegos
Wall Street as a stage for unreliable narrators.
11Production value

A package-friendly movie
with a contained spine.

01
Star vehicle
A lead role built on charm, ego, fear, and reinvention. The camera stays close to the unreliable narrator.
02
Manageable scope
NY/NJ interiors — offices, clubs, hotels, cars, courtrooms. Bahamas sequences for scale.
03
Marketable hook
True story. Wall Street. FBI. Hidden tapes. A second double-cross. The trailer writes itself.
Format
Feature first
110–120 min prestige crime thriller
Budget tier
$15–25M
Star-driven, contained, location-friendly
Upside
Limited series
If additional tapes, filings and subject interviews support a procedural season
12Rights & materials

Front-load the
chain-of-title conversation.

LAW OFFICES OF ERIC W. THOMPSON, P.C.
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.
EXHIBIT A · OPTION LETTERREDACTED PREVIEW
COUNSEL REVIEW REQUIRED
Full document available under NDA on request.

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
Diligence note

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.

Move fast
creatively.
Move careful
legally.
13Producer ask

Let's package
the rogue version
of the
Wall Street
crime movie.

Seeking

Production company, financier and writer-director conversations to develop the screenplay, verify chain-of-title and attach talent.

Next step

30-minute creative call + rights/materials review.

Contact / Pitch inquiry
He flipped.
Then he flipped again.