Dumb Cash’s first trailer has us rooting for beginner Reddit buyers

There’s no scarcity of films already based mostly on real-life, historic incidents surrounding the Inventory Market, however all the things within the first trailer for Sony’s upcoming Dumb Cash movie — a biographical comedy-drama overlaying the occasions of the GameStop quick squeeze — fantastically demonstrates why now we have such an urge for food for them. Particularly when it includes a David vs Goliath-like plot the place “the little man” takes on the Wall Road institution.

Directed by Craig Gillespie of I, Tonya (2017) and Cruella (2021), Dumb Cash is a dramatized retelling of how a bunch of beginner buyers on the r/WallStreetBets subreddit deliberately inflated struggling GameStop’s inventory to screw over the hedge funds who have been shorting it whereas getting wealthy on the identical time. 

Contemplating this film relies on actual occasions, the least plausible factor about it’s that these two dudes are brothers. Picture: Sony

Lots of huge names are hooked up to this mission. Paul Dano as Keith Gill — in any other case identified by his on-line alias of Roaring Kitty — a former monetary analyst who grew to become the driving pressure behind the motion. Pete Davidson performs Keith’s brother, Kevin Gill, whereas Seth Rogan and Nick Offerman painting Gabe Plotkin and Kenneth C. Griffin respectively — two of the hedge fund managers wrapped up within the incident. Sebastian Stan, Anthony Ramos, America Ferrera, Shailene Woodley, and Vincent D’Onofrio additionally function.

Curiously, Sony says that Dumb Cash relies on The Delinquent Community — a e-book written by Ben Mezrich on the GameStop quick squeeze. That bodes effectively contemplating Mezrich additionally wrote The Unintended Billionaire, which was later tailored for the large display as The Social Community (2010). There’s at present no age ranking assigned to the film arriving in theaters within the US on September twenty second.