“The producer in that process was like, ‘Alright, let’s just go out and invent a new language of cinema.’ It has taken many years trying to figure out: How do you make a story like this cinematic?” “We wrote a film about GamerGate a long time ago that didn’t get made,” says Blum. For them it was a way to extend their interest in the power of internet populism - and they already had some experience turning digital-based stories into something human. Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo, two former Wall Street Journal reporters turned screenwriters, came on to write the script. That frustration, that outrage, all those emotions that were happening through this. “That was a huge touchstone for me in terms of the emotionality of the film. “I got to live it through him,” says Gillespie. Gillespie was able to follow the phenomenon thanks to his 24-year-old son, who had been involved with the subreddit Wall Street Bets. “Dumb Money” proceeded at a ripped-from-the-headlines pace - fast enough that most of those involved making it failed to invest, themselves.
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“That night, I wrote a 12-page proposal and treatment as both a movie and book idea.
“By the end of that day, I knew that this was something that I wanted to write and I could see it as a film,” says Mezrich. On the day the company’s stock surpassed $300 a share, he began plotting a book that could adapted into a movie. Mezrich, whose 2009 book about Mark Zuckerberg, “The Accidental Billionaire,” served as fodder for David Fincher’s “The Social Network,” immediately recognized the potential drama in the GameStop phenomenon. “I think we should go to AMC Theaters and we should bring stuff from Bed Bath and Beyond and carry Blackberries,” says Ben Mezrich, author of the book the film’s adapted from, “The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees.” There are many ironies surrounding “Dumb Money.” It will play in AMC Theaters, which followed GameStop as a meme stock, pumping up its share price at a time when movie theaters were reeling from the pandemic. “As much as it’s a really fun ride, ultimately I wanted to respect the frustration and the outrage that was happening,” says Gillespie.
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