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 referred to as Dumb Cash. I hope it lives as much as it.
It’s tailored from writer Ben Mezrich’s e-book 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, in the end, 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 forged listing, whereas Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Actual Lady, Cruella) is directing.
Mezrich offered the rights to his e-book 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 Huge Brief for Reddit, or perhaps it’ll be extra like HBO’s stilted Too Huge to Fail.
There have been quite a lot of documentaries already concerning the GameStop frenzy, and whereas some have supplied intriguing and intimate home windows into the lives of abnormal individuals coming into big windfalls due to 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 quite a lot of the rhetoric being thrown round on the time, nevertheless it’s clear in hindsight that plenty of massive institutional traders made out within the meme inventory bonanza as nicely. That stated, there’s no scarcity of batshit moments peppered all through the entire saga. Even now, GameStop’s greatest superstonkers stay within the throes of some wild conspiracy theories.
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