Netflix became interested in the film when there was talk of Meryl Streep being cast and how she would show up in their algorithms. Currently, very few of the actress's films exist on the platform.
Based on the non-fiction book "Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite" by Jake Bernstein, that exposes the world revealed by the Panama Papers, a landscape of illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global scale.