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The strange $89m saga of a Netflix series you’ll never see

By John Carreyrou
New York Times·
14 mins to read

After suitors flocked to a sci-fi project by Carl Rinsch, director of a single movie, the winner handed over money and control. They’re still fighting.

Near the height of the streaming boom in the fall of 2018, a half-dozen studios and video platforms lined up to woo a little-known filmmaker named Carl Erik Rinsch. He had directed only one movie, 47 Ronin. It was a commercial and critical dud, and Rinsch’s tussles with its producers had raised eyebrows, even in

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