Netflix wants to turn The Tinder Swindler documentary into a movie

The Tinder Swindler must be one of the Netflix wildest documentary to broadcast on streamer in recent years. True crime documentary – from the makers of Impostor and Don’t F**k with Cats – expose the hideous ways of the notorious scammer Simon Leviev (real name Shimon Hayut) who used the dating app “Tinder” to lure and exploit unsuspecting women in order to defraud them of thousands of dollars.

The scammer convinces women to fall in love with him and then asks them to lend him huge amounts of money to get rid of his “enemies”, to continue to finance his lavish and expensive lifestyle. while continuing to pose as an airliner, world traveller, “billionaire player”.

Simon Leviev may have taken some advice from Anna Delvey (Anna Sorokin) – star of another Netflix scam-based series, Invented Annarecently released – because now it looks like scammers may have sell my life story in hopes of making a lot of money on the big screen.

Based on Diversitynext The Tinder Swindler With the success of the documentary, Netflix is ​​currently “in talks with the producers” about being able to dramatize the popular documentary and turn it into a feature-length series. The publication’s sources claim that conversations about a movie are still in the “early stages” with the potential film’s “tone” still needing to be worked out before it is revealed by a streamer. .

Despite the documentary’s 90-minute length, one of the producers is behind The Tinder Swindler, FelicityMorris, revealed in one interview that there is “more story” to tell, so a movie could certainly be something Netflix considers for the future. During the measurement, The Tinder Swindler the documentary got a sequel in the form of special three-part podcasttitled The creation of a scammer. Podcast begins to delve “deeper into the lives and methods of the notorious” Tinder Scammerswith each episode exposing many of the “lies of Simon Leviev and the people who actively – or unknowingly – support him.”

You can watch the documentary on Netflix, and the special three-part podcast in the feed of its popular documentary podcast, You cannot do this.