Sony Pictures has released the Red Band trailer for the upcoming dramedy Dumb Money, which details the infamous GameStop meme stock that spread during the pandemic. Despite seeming like a one-in-a-million chance, this Reddit-born joke would soon spark a conflict between billionaires and Internet users.
Keith Gill (Paul Dano) spends all of his life savings on the failing GameStop stock and posts about it on the subreddit r/WallStreetBets. As a result, plenty of people start borrowing, buying, and investing in the company’s shares for a short squeeze, which severely impacts hedge funds that are flailing as a result of their own short squeezes. Dumb Money illustrates how this wild card of an idea caused an upheaval in Wall Street and a class war between those in financial power and those at the bottom of the rung.
Based on Ben Mezrich’s book The Antisocial Network, Dumb Money serves as a reunion amongst director Gillespie and Seth Rogen, Sebastian Stan, and Nick Offerman, all of whom will play a variety of parts in this ensemble cast. Its screenplay was penned by Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo, who also act as the film’s producers alongside people like John Friedberg and Kevin Ulrich.
Dumb Money is currently in post-production and is set to release on September 22.
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