Silk Road (film)

Silk Road
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Tiller Russell
Written by	Tiller Russell
Based on	“Dead End on Silk Road” by David Kushner
Produced by	Christopher Figg Alex Orlovsky Robert Whitehouse Elika Portnoy Jack Selby Duncan Montgomery David Hyman Dawn Bierschwal Stephen Gans
Starring	Jason Clarke Nick Robinson Will Ropp Alexandra Shipp Jimmi Simpson
Cinematography	Peter Flinckenberg
Edited by	Greg O'Bryant
Music by	Mondo Boys
Production companies	Perfect Season Productions High Frequency Entertainment Piccadilly Pictures Mutressa Movies
Distributed by	Lionsgate
Release date	February 19, 2021 (2021-02-19) (United States)
Running time	112 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$5.99 million[citation needed]
Box office	$138,565

Silk Road is a 2021 American crime thriller film, written for the screen and directed by Tiller Russell based on the Rolling Stone article "Dead End on Silk Road: Internet Crime Kingpin Ross Ulbricht's Big Fall" by David Kushner.^[2] The film stars Jason Clarke, Nick Robinson, Alexandra Shipp, Jimmi Simpson, Paul Walter Hauser, Darrell Britt-Gibson, and Will Ropp. It is based on the true story of Ross Ulbricht who develops a website on the darknet, an act which attracts the attention of the FBI and DEA who send in federal agent Richard "Rick" Bowden, a fictional composite of real life DEA Agent Carl Force and US Secret Service Special Agent Shaun Bridges, both of whom were convicted of felonies related to theft of assets in the investigation of Ulbricht, to bring down Ross' empire.

Silk Road was released in the United States on February 19, 2021 by Lionsgate.^[3]