You may have already seen the first trailer for Adam McKay’s new financial drama The Big Short. If not, it’s lurking at the bottom of the page. But here’s something else, a new featurette showing the film’s stars such as Steve Carell, Christian Bale and Ryan Gosling saying nice things about their director. Presumably with the man himself just off camera holding wads of cash…
In all seriousness, it does look like McKay is really going for something different from the likes of Anchorman here, adapting Moneyball author Michael Lewis’ book, which chronicled the true story of people who saw the financial crash coming and either tried to point out the pitfalls of the toxic credit bubble that blew up in the banks’ faces, or used it to their own advantage.
Carell is Steve Eisman, a money manager who shorted subprime mortgages for FrontPoint Partners, while Gosling is Deutsche Bank trader Greg Lippmann. Bale is Michael Burry, the founder of the Scion Capital and one of the first people to predict the coming crisis. And Brad Pitt, in more of a supporting part, is Ben Hockett, a partner at Cornwall Capital.
McKay wrote the script with Charles Randolph and has Pitt pulling double duty as producer. The Big Short will be out on January 22.