GameStop’s Hollywood second is lastly coming this October. Sony introduced its dramatization of the online game retailer’s meme inventory explosion will hit theaters in October, starring Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Pete Davidson and extra. It’s known as Dumb Cash. I hope it lives as much as it.
It’s tailored from creator Ben Mezrich’s guide The Delinquent Community, which particulars how the commission-less buying and selling platform Robinhood paved the best way for the gamification of day buying and selling and, finally, a GameStop meme inventory bubble that entertained Reddit and short-squeezed hedge funds for billions. Nick Offerman (The Final of Us), Vincent D’Onofrio (Daredevil), and Shailene Woodley (Divergent) are additionally on the solid checklist, whereas Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Actual Woman, Cruella) is directing.
Mezrich bought the rights to his guide earlier than it had even been written, and Dumb Cash follows earlier Hollywood variations of his work, most notably Bringing Down the Home which turned 21, and The Unintended Billionaires, which turned The Social Community. These two movies are of dramatically totally different high quality, and who is aware of which bucket Dumb Cash will fall into. Possibly it’ll be The Large Quick for Reddit, or perhaps it’ll be extra like HBO’s stilted Too Large to Fail.
There have been numerous documentaries already in regards to the GameStop frenzy, and whereas some have provided intriguing and intimate home windows into the lives of unusual individuals coming into big windfalls because of the meme inventory lottery, many have additionally oversold the David and Goliath narrative round Redditors steeped in 4chan-speak fleecing the fits on Wall Avenue in an try to democratize the inventory market.
It was definitely an correct illustration of numerous the rhetoric being thrown round on the time, but it surely’s clear in hindsight that a number of giant institutional traders made out within the meme inventory bonanza as effectively. That stated, there’s no scarcity of batshit moments peppered all through the entire saga. Even now, GameStop’s largest superstonkers stay within the throes of some wild conspiracy theories.
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