Dumb Money’s first trailer has us rooting for amateur Reddit investors
by Jess Weatherbed from The Verge - All Posts on (#6CDHK)
Image: Sony There's no shortage of movies already based on real-life, historical incidents surrounding the Stock Market, but everything in the first trailer for Sony's upcoming Dumb Money film - a biographical comedy-drama covering the events of the GameStop short squeeze - beautifully demonstrates why we have such an appetite for them. Especially when it involves a David vs Goliath-like plot where the little guy" takes on the Wall Street establishment.
Directed by Craig Gillespie of I, Tonya (2017) and Cruella (2021), Dumb Money is a dramatized retelling of how a bunch of amateur investors on the r/WallStreetBets subreddit intentionally inflated struggling GameStop's stock to screw over the hedge funds who were shorting it while getting rich at...