There’s no scarcity of films already primarily based on real-life, historic incidents surrounding the Inventory Market, however all the pieces within the first trailer for Sony’s upcoming Dumb Cash movie — a biographical comedy-drama protecting the occasions of the GameStop brief squeeze — superbly demonstrates why now we have such an urge for food for them. Particularly when it includes a David vs Goliath-like plot the place “the little man” takes on the Wall Avenue institution.
Directed by Craig Gillespie of I, Tonya (2017) and Cruella (2021), Dumb Cash is a dramatized retelling of how a bunch of newbie buyers on the r/WallStreetBets subreddit deliberately inflated struggling GameStop’s inventory to screw over the hedge funds who have been shorting it whereas getting wealthy on the identical time.
Numerous huge names are hooked up to this undertaking. Paul Dano as Keith Gill — in any other case recognized by his on-line alias of Roaring Kitty — a former monetary analyst who grew to become the driving pressure behind the motion. Pete Davidson performs Keith’s brother, Kevin Gill, whereas Seth Rogan and Nick Offerman painting Gabe Plotkin and Kenneth C. Griffin respectively — two of the hedge fund managers wrapped up within the incident. Sebastian Stan, Anthony Ramos, America Ferrera, Shailene Woodley, and Vincent D’Onofrio additionally characteristic.
Curiously, Sony says that Dumb Cash relies on The Delinquent Community — a e-book written by Ben Mezrich on the GameStop brief squeeze. That bodes properly contemplating Mezrich additionally wrote The Unintended Billionaire, which was later tailored for the large display screen as The Social Community (2010). There’s at present no age score assigned to the film arriving in theaters within the US on September twenty second.
