Joni Sighvatsson preparing Bitcoin Bandits films (exclusive) | News

Hollywood-based Icelandic producer and Scanbox chairman Sigurjon ’Joni’ Sighvatsson is preparing to shoot a documentary about the three Icelanders  known as The Bitcoin Bandits.

Sighvatsson, whose producer and executive producer credits include Wild At Heart, Wind River, Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait and the Candyman franchise, has lined up an April shoot in Iceland, Spain, and the US.

The documentary takes place against the backdrop of the cryptocurrency boom as Icelander Sindri Stefánsson and others allegedly stole hundreds of supercomputers worth around $200m that were used to “mine” or mint digital currency. Some of the computers are still unrecovered.

The gang took the computers over the course of several heists starting in December 2017 and earned the status of local heroes as they took on the might of the foreign-owned mining operations.

Stefánsson was captured and imprisoned briefly in 2018 before he fled a low-security institution in Iceland and escaped…