Director: Unknown
Writer(s): Tanya Smith (book)
Starring: Janelle Monáe
Synopsis: The memoir tells Smith’s unbelievable story— of how a middle-class black girl from the North Side of Minneapolis would, in the words of the FBI, “become one of the single biggest threats to the entire United States banking system.” The film will follow her extraordinary story of creating a sophisticated wire fraud scheme and outwitting the FBI and prosecutors, who underestimated her intelligence for years, before her life ultimately fell apart, leading to two prison escapes and finally serving 13 years of a 24-year sentence – at the time, the longest sentence handed down to any white-collar criminal.
Release Date: Unknown | Length: Unknown | Genre: Crime, Drama | MPAA Rating: Unknown | Note(s): Original announcement in 2020. Re-announcement in 2025. It looks like this project is back on with the title changed from “The Ghost in the Machine” to “Never Saw Me Coming”. Tasha Smith is still listed as a producer on this project but Issa Rae and Kevin Hart aren’t. Nor is there any mention of a deal with Netflix.