Inside F*ck You Money, a Dark Satire Inspired by the Real-Life “Billionaire’s Genie”

“The job sounds simple enough,” Aron Moldovanyi says. “They want something. You get it. Something happens. You deal with it. The problem is when you work for a billionaire, ‘something’ can be anything.” Moldovanyi, known in elite circles as “The Billionaire’s Genie,” has spent nearly two decades working as a right hand to some of the wealthiest individuals in the world. It’s the kind of position that tends to accumulate stories that are bound by NDAs. F*ck You Money, written by Jared Brandon Brewer and Karl Williams, pulls from those stories. The project initially leaned closer to a direct retelling of Moldovanyi’s life, but over time had to shift into something else for obvious reasons. “He’d tell us things and we’d just look at each other like, there’s no way people would believe this,” Brewer says. “It already felt like satire. And given the possible consequences of telling those stories straight, it kind of pushed us in that direction anyway.” “The one thing we didn’t want to lose,” Williams says, “was the perspective. The billionaire’s not the story. The person managing everything around him is.” The film’s logline reads: The “Billionaire’s Genie,” chief of staff to one of the richest men alive, effortlessly navigates a world of obscene wealth, privilege, and debauchery. But when his boss’s shady new venture threatens to ruin him, he must use everything he’s learned from serving the depraved one percent to keep his reputation and conscience clean. In early conversations, the title has drawn some pushback. Brewer doesn’t seem interested in budging. “If the title makes you uncomfortable before you’ve seen anything, that’s kind of the point. That feeling — like, should this even exist — that’s the right place to start with this movie.” Williams adds, “If you’re the type of person who’s put off by the title, this probably isn’t the movie for you,” he laughs. “It gets a lot worse after the title page.” Moldovanyi doesn’t push back on that. “People think it’s extreme,” he says. “It’s not. It just feels that way if you’re not used to it.