blackfilm.com correspondent Ellen Wanjiru speaks with Darrell Britt-Gibson (Judas and the Black Messiah, “Barry” Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri) about his role in SILK ROAD, based on the article “Dead End on Silk Road: Internet Crime Kingpin Ross Ulbricht’s Big Fall” by David Kushner, published in Rolling Stone. Darrell Britt-Gibson On His Role In ‘SILK ROAD’ Darrell Britt-Gibson On His Role In ‘SILK ROAD’
SYNOPSIS: Inspired by larger-than-life actual events, this riveting crime thriller follows the rise and fall of Silk Road, the infamous darknet site that sent a seismic shock through the World Wide Web. Young, idealistic, and driven to succeed, Ross Ulbricht (Nick Robinson) creates the internet’s first unregulated marketplace: Silk Road. But when it becomes a multimillion-dollar pipeline for illicit drugs, Ross is set on a collision course with Rick Bowden (Jason Clarke), a disreputable and dangerously unpredictable DEA agent, who will use any means necessary to take him down.
CAST: Jason Clarke, Nick Robinson, Katie Aselton, Jimmi Simpson, Daniel David Stewart, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Lexi Rabe, Will Ropp, with Paul Walter Hauser, and Alexandra Shipp
DIRECTOR & WRITER: Tiller Russell
Lionsgate released the crime thriller film SILK ROAD on Digital, On Demand & Select Theaters on February 19, 2021 and on Blu-Ray and DVD on February 23, 2021. WATCH TRAILER BELOW!
Are you familiar with the Ross Ulbricht story?
Ross Ulbricht is the creator of SILK ROAD, which was an online black market, also known as the Amazon of the dark web. Users were able to browse anonymously and securely without traffic monitoring. It became a hub to buy and sell illicit drugs, weapons, poison, and services (including hacking and even murder-for-hire). SILK ROAD did not accept cash or credit cards. Users had to pay with bitcoin a cryptocurrency. All transactions were encrypted and hence untraceable.
Today, Ross Ulbricht is serving life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. He was recently in the news as Trump was considering pardoning him prior to the end of his term. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/12/the-double-standard-of-a-trump-pardon-for-silk-road-founder-ross-ulbricht
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