Ross Ulbricht, the man convicted as being the mastermind behind the black market website Silk Road, was sentenced to life in prison on Friday.
Deep Web, a documentary about Ulbricht and the Silk Road trial, as well as deeper issues such as privacy, digital rights and the role of the government, debuts on Epix on Sunday night.
For Deep Web director Alex Winter, the timing of the release was strictly coincidental. “We had no way of knowing the sentencing [of Ulbricht] would be pushed back by two weeks,” he tells me. As a result of the timing, Winter had to rush to get information to editing crews to add in a final line about Ulbricht’s sentence at the end of the film in time for the Epix premiere.
Winter, who directed the 2013 documentary Downloaded about the rise and fall of Napster, may still be best-known for his role as Bill S. Preston in the Bill & Ted series of films. Winter’s long-time friend and co-star in those films, Keanu Reeves, narrates Deep Web.
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