Errol Morris wanted to make (and could still make) an Elizabeth Holmes documentary

After soliciting a screener from Variety for You Can See Everything (as he’s very keen to check it out), Morris told the outlet that, like many prominent and influential people at the time, he was drawn into Holmes’ inner circle by her charisma. “What’s really not known about any of this is, yes, I did all the advertising for Theranos,” Morris said. “But I did it at a time when Elizabeth Holmes was on the front cover of Forbes and many other magazines. She was riding high, and this was before everything collapsed. Did I have any reason to believe that she was a fraud? I did not. Did that change as time went on? It did.” The Wall Street Journal published a bombshell report in October 2015 alleging that Holmes had engaged in fraud. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission brought formal charges in 2018.

“I asked her, at a certain point, if I could film an interview with her—and this is at the height of her success,” Morris continued. “I did film a two-hour interview with her, which is not very well-known if it is known at all. And I just watched that.” With the benefit of hindsight, coupled with a recent private screening of his Holmes interview, Morris then said he was “sincerely interested in putting out” an unedited cut of the footage, because he believes it contrasts with the version of Holmes millions are seeing in Fiedler and Oppenheim’s film and with the Holmes who managed to dupe the likes of billionaires Rupert Murdoch, Larry Ellison, and Carlos Slim. “If anything, it gives you a comparison of Elizabeth before and Elizabeth after, which I think is interesting in and of itself.”