The first trailer for the big budget GameStop—Reddit stock scandal film reveals a surprisingly stellar cast
Remember the whole GameStop stonks thing from a couple years ago? It's kind of complicated and kind of stupid, and frankly I don't think anyone is entirely sure exactly what happened, but the bottom line is that a guy on Reddit started talking about GameStop stocks, then Elon Musk tweeted about it, then everyone went nuts, and then—for a brief while—profit. The whole thing had a certain Wolf of Wall Street vibe to it (except that the wolf in this case was Roaring Kitty) and sure enough, work to bring the tale to film was soon underway.
Today Sony Pictures Entertainment unveiled the first trailer for its contribution to that cinematic effort: A flick called Dumb Money, «the insane true story of everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got rich by turning GameStop (yes, the mall videogame store) into the world’s hottest company.»
«In the middle of everything is regular guy Keith Gill (Paul Dano), who starts it all by sinking his life savings into the stock and posting about it,» the YouTube listing states. «When his social posts start blowing up, so does his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets rich—until the billionaires fight back, and both sides find their worlds turned upside down.»
Dumb Money boasts an impressive cast: Paul Dano heads things up as Keith Gill, aka DeepFuckingValue/Roaring Kitty, the analyst and investor who got the GameStop ball rolling; also on the marquee are Pete Davidson, Vincent D'Onofrio, America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos, Sebastian Stan, Shailene Woodley, and Seth Rogen. (According to IMDB, Clancy Brown is in it too, which is cool.)
There is literally nobody in that cast I don't like (and just as a side note,
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