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The ongoing saga involving the gambling debts of Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara will be serialized for television.

Mizuhara recently pled guilty to bank fraud and signing a false tax return that could see him land in prison for over 30 years after stealing $17million from the Los Angeles Dodgers star. 

According to the Los Angeles Times, Lionsgate Television is working on making a scripted series based on the scandal.

This show will be following Ohtani's story and his rise to becoming one of the most popular baseball players in the world.

But a big portion of the story will involve the moment he heard the news that Mizuhara stole tens of millions to pay off gambling debts.

That happened earlier this year and the Dodgers fired him after hearing about the allegations.