Ray William Johnson

In fact, he gets so crazy that eventually Gabriella, some of Carl's family members, and other crew members all get together and they stage an intervention, which apparently ends up not working at all.

So anyway, more time passes, and it's now 2020.

And by this point, Netflix has already put in $44.3 million into Carl's project.

But despite that, somehow, Carl's production is out of money.

I'm guessing they spent it all on production costs and stuff.

So he has to go back to the Netflix execs and ask for more.

And they initially say no, but Carl tells them that if they don't give him more, that he can't finish the project at all.

So Netflix kind of has no choice.

They don't want their investment to go to waste.

So they wire him $11 million more dollars.

Now, at this point, Carl could try and finish up his production and maybe make Netflix a cool sci-fi show and maybe he'll become the successful Hollywood director that he's always wanted to be.

But that's not what Carl does.

Instead, he takes that $11 million Netflix sent him and he transfers it to his personal stock trading account and he starts trading options and like going all in, making extremely risky trades.

And within just a couple of weeks, of that $11 million Netflix gave him, he loses $5.9 million of it.

Oh no, but he's not done yet.

Then he moves the remaining money into a cryptocurrency trading account, and he buys millions of dollars worth of a meme coin that you've probably heard of called Dogecoin.

Here's the crazy thing though.

This gamble actually pays off.

Dogecoin spikes and the $4 million that he put in shoots up to $27 million.

Crazy lucky bastard over here.