Apple TV+ Plans Miniseries on WeWork Rise and Fall With Jared Leto as Co-Founder Adam Neumann

WeCrashed: The Rise and Fall of WeWork will follow "the greed-filled rise and inevitable fall of WeWork,” as per Apple TV+.

By Agence France-Presse | Updated: 30 January 2021 11:22 IST

Apple TV+ Plans Miniseries on WeWork Rise and Fall With Jared Leto as Co-Founder Adam Neumann

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Oscar winner Jared Leto will play the role of former WeWork chief in the miniseries planned by Apple TV+

Highlights

Apple TV+ is set to feature a miniseries on WeWork
It will highlight the ups and downs of the shared office giant
Anne Hathaway will play the role of WeWork co-founder Rebekah

Video-on-demand service Apple TV+ has commissioned a miniseries based on the saga of WeWork, the shared office giant that almost went bankrupt after becoming a darling of Wall Street, with Jared Leto playing the role of its colourful former boss Adam Neumann.

"WeCrashed: The Rise and Fall of WeWork," will follow "the greed-filled rise and inevitable fall of WeWork, one of the world's most valuable startups, and the narcissists whose chaotic love made it all possible," Apple TV+ said in a statement.

Founded in 2010, WeWork was built on the model of shared office space, combining both flexibility and user-friendliness. A start-up with a dynamic and innovative image, WeWork quickly won over investors, reaching a theoretical valuation of $47 billion (roughly Rs. 3,42,664 crores) in January 2019.

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The group was preparing its entry on the New York Stock Exchange with great fanfare, but within weeks it suffered a catastrophic downturn and had to cancel. On the front lines was Neumann, managing director and co-founder of the company, a marketing and sales genius but also a man also prone to excess and wild unpredictability.

To save WeWork from bankruptcy, its main shareholder, Japan's SoftBank, had to inject several billion dollars and shunted Adam Neumann aside.

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Oscar winner Jared Leto, long accustomed to colourful roles, will play Neumann alongside Anne Hathaway, also an Oscar winner, who plays Neumann's wife and WeWork co-founder Rebekah, who has a personality as volatile as her husband's. She, too, had to leave the group in 2019.

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