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What will the eventual film of WSB (Game) vs Wall Street shorters look like?

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Most of the big financial events or periods in history get films depicting them, some of them even pretty watchable (Wall Street 1987 but probably want to skip the sequel, The Big Short, Wolf of Wall Street, The Company Men, Marginal Call, The Roaring Twenties all being variously good for a laugh and they are far from the only ones).

This even has the added bonus of evil hackers doing computery things.

To that end who to direct, who to star, what will the main roles be? Other things that normally get discussed when seeing upcoming films. Got a good title? Short GaME? If you want to do posters then so much the better.
 
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To be completely honest, they're going to glorify the investing companies that lost money, and vilify the people from Reddit. It's going to be played completely seriously, going on about how the poor millionaire investors are losing so much money, they can't afford to feed their families, and their spouses are leaving them. The WSB people will be shown as heartless assholes who continue doing this merely because they enjoy seeing the suffering from said millionaires losing their families over this. Finally, if the government steps in and passes a law to protect these millionaires and prevent retail investors from ever working the market like this, they'll show it as a practical blessing from God. If the government hasn't yet done anything by the time the movie comes out (because they're already confirmed to be working on this movie for real), they'll end it on a hopeful note as Congress meets to discuss possibly passing a law.
 
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Definitely agree with Kurt91 above. Probably be about a tech nerd in his basement trying to "take advantage" of the system.
 
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DFV is 100% going to be portrayed as some “hacker named 4chan” type bad guy. Unless a small movie studio gets ahold of it, it’ll be something like a bunch of rowdy teens try to dismantle America’s economy cuz trolling.
 
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Chary said:
DFV is 100% going to be portrayed as some “hacker named 4chan” type bad guy. Unless a small movie studio gets ahold of it, it’ll be something like a bunch of rowdy teens try to dismantle America’s economy cuz trolling.
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How dare the disgusting poor do what we've been doing for years
 
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Costello said:
a comedy with Seth Rogen and Steve Buscemi in the lead roles
Christopher Walken as the hedge fund CEO
Steve Carrell as a corrupt news host repeating the crap the hedge funds paid them to say on air
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If I had my way, I'd make Michael Lewis write a book (which he'll probably do) and then have Adam McKay direct it into a movie (he might? Big short sequel... Maybe?).
The result would be somewhat like this, yes. A screwball comedy about the financial... Erm...

I'd say 'crisis' , but it's rather the opposite. On a general scale, this might have helped the real economy in the area of government stimulus (reason : give money to everyday people and they spend more. Give it to rich people and they'll just put it on top of their existing pile).

The thing is... As it currently is, it's just an incident. A great opening for a movie, but the story is happening now. Is this the start of a trade war between Wall Street and the people's savings, or just a single battle won because the other side had no idea they had an opponent to begin with?
 
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