Dumb Cash, the movie chronicling GameStop’s 2021 inventory market frenzy, simply obtained a trailer. The movie marks director Craig Gillespie’s foray into adapting real-life tales — since 2017’s I, Tonya — and is slated to launch September 22 in theatres. With Paul Dano within the lead, it primarily serves as a David v Goliath dramedy in regards to the real-life YouTuber Keith Gill, who took on billionaire hedge fund managers, who have been betting that the inventory value of brick-and-mortar retailer GameStop would fall. The surprising occasions have been condensed in writer Ben Mezrich’s novel ‘The Delinquent Community,’ from which the film attracts its plot beats upon.
The trailer for Dumb Cash opens with Reddit screenshots and archived footage of reports channels reporting on the GameStop brief squeeze that despatched Wall Avenue right into a frenzy. We then soar again by six months, the place YouTuber Keith Gill reside streams himself and spreads his phrase throughout Reddit, attempting to encourage individuals into investing in GameStop shares. You see, Wall Avenue is betting that GameStop goes to fail and if it does, a gaggle of hedge-fund managers with tens of millions in internet price would make some huge cash. The movie focuses on three of them — Gabe Plotkin (Seth Rogen), Ken Griffin (Nick Offerman), and Steve Cohen (Vincent D’Onofrio) — who initially see Gill’s shopping for as ‘dumb cash’, which they’re pleased to just accept. The common individuals do not like that concept and subsequently, be part of Gill on his campaign and guess on GameStop, over time turning the investments into revenue and upending their lives. Keep in mind when everyone was putting in the Robinhood app on their cellphone?
“How a lot did we make at present?” Caroline Gill (Shailene Woodley) asks her husband Keith, who responds with “$5 million”, adopted by one other $4 million. On the opposite finish, the shorters are dropping cash within the billions, daily, with Plotkin getting grilled by his funding companions for dragging them into this mess. “You’ve got obtained wealthy dudes pissing of their pants, proper now,” Keith’s brother Kevin (Pete Davidson) tells him, encouraging his household to purchase a Ferrari with all that cash. The Dumb Cash trailer consistently jumps forwards and backwards displaying Wall Avenue’s perspective as nicely, who’re making ready to battle again and regain management over their monetary empire. Gill is quickly requested to testify earlier than Congress in a digital listening to, claiming that he had not solicited anybody into shopping for shares to revenue himself.
“Lots of people really feel the system is damaged,” Gill says throughout the name. “The entire thought of the inventory market was that when you’re good and possibly with a bit of luck, you may make your fortune. Definitely not anymore.” In a method, the Dumb Cash trailer implies that he was preventing again in order that on a regular basis common individuals can even flip their lives the other way up and this was merely a gateway into proving that. The movie additionally stars Anthony Ramos (Within the Heights), America Ferrera (Barbie), and Sebastian Stan (Captain America: The Winter Soldier). I need to additionally level out that the producers appear to have fairly precisely recreated the real-life Keith Gill’s setup, with Dano sporting the purple bandana, a tie-dye shirt with cats on them, and even getting the identical mannequin of the microphone.
Dumb Cash is slated to launch September 22 in theatres.
