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'47 Ronin' director charged with $11 million fraud over doomed Netflix sci-fi series
Carl Erik Rinsch, the director of 47 Ronin, has been charged for defrauding Netflix out of $11 million, according to the Southern District of New York's US Attorney's Office.
In 2018, Rinsch pitched a sci-fi series called White Horse, referencing the first horseman of the apocalypse, to several services, namely Amazon, Apple, HBO, Hulu, Netflix and YouTube. The Times' report said that Amazon had already won the bidding war, but Netflix's former VP of Original Content, Cindy Holland, called Rinsch on a weekend and offered millions more, along with the privilege of making a director's cut. In the midst of all of these, Rinsch reportedly displayed erratic behavior: He allegedly claimed to have discovered Covid-19’s secret transmission mechanism, treated the show's staff horribly and accused his wife of plotting his assassination.
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