Released on January 1st, Kaleidoscope’s plot has already been talked about for being non-linear — but was it inspired by something that actually happened?
Since it was launched by Netflix on the first day of 2023, the series Kaleidoscope has drawn a lot of attention from the curious and mystery lovers. This is because, non-linear, the plot can be seen in more than 40,000 different ways. But is the story told by the curious production real?
starring Giancarlo Esposito, peace vega, Rufus Sewellbetween others, Kaleidoscope narrates the 24 years before and the 6 months after a millionaire theft. To that end, the series “takes a non-linear approach,” ensuring that audiences solve the mysteries however and in the order they choose.
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Faced with the many ways that the series can be followed, then, a doubt arose: the facts portrayed in Kaleidoscope Are they based on real events? According to her own Netflixvia People, the production created by Eric Garcia was “loosely inspired by the true story in which $70 billion in bonds disappeared in midtown Manhattan during Hurricane Sandy in 2012”. Still, it is important to point out that the characters involved in the plot are completely fictional.
“It’s loosely based on something that may have happened,” explained the creator of the plot, during the festival. Tudumgives Netflix. “After Hurricane Sandy, $70 billion worth of bonds was flooded into the basement of the DTCC, which is a large clearing effort owned by a group of large banks. In my opinion, I thought, ‘Well, this is a perfect cover-up. of a robbery!’.”
At the time, the new york post made a report about what happened, making it clear that Hurricane Sandy flooded an underground vault of almost a thousand square meters. In that sense, “1.3 million bonds and stock certificates – including bearer bonds that function like cash” would have been destroyed.
Classified by the publication as “Wall Street’s biggest mystery”, the case ended in mystery, since the exact value of the items kept in the vault at the time was never revealed. It was a source at the newspaper who stated that “$70 billion in bearer bonds were in danger”, but, still according to the Peopleit is not known exactly what happened to such titles after the hurricane.
Source: Rollingstone
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