‘Crypto Keepers’ NFT-Backed Drama Series Hatched by AMM Global

AMM Global, a manufacturing and funding firm spun out of Hong Kong’s Asia Television, and Phoenix Waters Productions have introduced “Crypto Keepers,” which they declare can be Asia’s first NFT drama collection.

NFTs or non-fungible tokens, which intention to lock within the worth of digital mental property, have taken the artwork and music worlds by storm and are actually being expanded into extra conventional media spheres.

The drama, an English and Cantonese language hybrid, is deliberate to shoot throughout a number of nations with the fictional narrative happening towards a backdrop of actual occasions, with figures within the cryptocurrency area showing on the present. It will likely be offered as 12 episodes, govt directed by Philip Ma, and delivered in 2022. The producers haven’t but finalized a distribution firm.

The story follows a gaggle of younger Hongkongers competing with a workforce of American bankers to create the subsequent Bitcoin-like digital foreign money. As relations between the East and West bitter, the 2 groups grow to be a part of a wider geopolitical motion, and put their private {and professional} lives at stake to dominate on the planet of crypto.

“Crypto Keepers” can be structured as a Hong Kong-U.Okay.-U.S. co-production. Growth has been dealt with in partnership with Kudos co-founder Debbie Mason (“Life on Mars”, “Spooks”). Hong Kong-based tech firm CryptoBLK is answerable for creating the collection as an NFT. It’s produced and co-financed by Phoenix Waters Productions, Hong Kong-based asset administration agency YG Capital, and AMM International.

“ ‘Crypto Keepers’ is a part of our technique to inform worldwide, topical tales that bridge the hole between the East and West in a trailblazing method,” mentioned Bizhan Tong, who’s senior govt at AMM, founding father of Phoenix Waters and a former banker. Tong can be showrunner on the collection.

Tong says that NFTs can strengthen viewers’ relationship with the present in order that they have interaction with its characters and ecosystem after the present’s run time. “This exists in varied kinds and taking inspiration from arguably essentially the most interactive type of storytelling – videogames. We’re incorporating a few of these features by way of using NFTs, from the unlocking of idea artwork to gathering characters and even a few of its most memorable scenes, Tong instructed Selection. “Different makes use of embrace gathering scripts, props, and every kind of collectible artifacts.”

CryptoBLK has additionally partnered with Phoenix Waters Productions and AMM International to transform gameshow “Blockchained!” into an NFT. “This can be a pioneering endeavor in the direction of creating NFTs which carry drama collection and gameshows to a brand new excessive degree of interplay with viewers,” mentioned CryptoBLK CEO Duncan Wong.

Phoenix Waters Productions, YG Capital, and AMM have partnered on different Hong Kong productions. These embrace the recently-completed worldwide pandemic thriller “Lockdown,” crime drama collection “Forensic Psychologist,” and an Asian remake of Richard Linklater’s “Tape” which is being produced with unique author Stephen Belber (“Match,” “What We Do Subsequent”).