Just a few years ago, dramas about the rise of global tech giants were all the rage, with David Fincher's Facebook movie The Social Network and the Apple-focused Steve Jobs biopic Steve Jobs. They have received many critical accolades and accolades. Now Netflix is looking to bring "big tech" to the small screen, with the streaming service lighting up a limited series about the rise of music streaming giant Spotify, as detailed by The Hollywood Reporter. The Swedish and English series from Norwegian filmmaker Per-Olav Sorensen (Quicksand) will be based on the non-fiction book Spotify Untold by Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud. The book is said to trace a small company's past involvement in the music streaming revolution at the height of online piracy.
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"This is the story of how a small group of Swedish tech industry insiders have transformed music, how we listen to it and how it's made, the '# 39; "It really is a story for our time," said the executive producer of the untitled show, Berna Levin (Young Wallander). Levin continued: "This is not just a story about how all our lives have changed in the last decade, but about the battle for cultural and financial influence in a globalized and digital world Netflix's upcoming series on Spotify isn't the only tech-related drama currently in the works: a movie about the downfall of workplace startup WeWork is also in development at Blumhouse Productions and Universal, while that USA Network's Doom TV series will focus on creating the iconic game at id Software.