Seth Rogen, Sebastian Stan And Paul Dano To Star in GameStop Inventory Pic – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: After signing on to the highly-anticipated undertaking earlier this yr, Craig Gillespie has now lined up an all-star forged that options some faces that every one too acquainted to the director. Sources inform Deadline, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Sebastian Stan and Pete Davidson are set to star in Black Bear Photos Dumb Money, an adaptation of the Ben Mezrich’s The Delinquent Community with Gillespie directing. Rebecca Angelo & Lauren Schuker Blum are adapting with Ryder Image Firm’s Aaron Ryder, Black Bear’s Teddy Schwarzman and Gillespie producing.

Deadline has been throughout this undertaking going again to when the movie was arrange at MGM, who landed the rights to Mezrich’s manuscript in January. The undertaking not too long ago moved over to Black Bear, who’s planning to launch gross sales on the movie at this years Toronto Movie Competition via their Black Bear Worldwide division led by John Friedberg. Government producers embody Michael Heimler, John Friedberg, Andrew Swett, Angelo, Schuker Blum, Mezrich, Johnny Holland, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss and Kevin Ulrich.  Black Bear Photos is totally financing, with Black Bear Worldwide dealing with the international distribution rights and launching gross sales on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition. UTA Unbiased Movie Group is representing the U.S. rights to the movie.

Principal pictures will start this October on the movie which tells the story of fortunes gained and misplaced in a single day within the David-vs.-Goliath GameStop brief squeeze that will have ended up altering Wall Avenue without end. It gives a gripping portrayal of how a loosely affiliated group of personal buyers and web trolls on a subreddit referred to as WallStreetBets took down one of many largest hedge funds on Wall Avenue, firing the primary shot in a revolution that threatened to upend the institution.

“Black Bear has diamond fingers for Dumb Cash. Lauren & Rebecca have masterfully tailored Ben Mezrich’s distinctive e book, detailing one of many biggest underdog tales of our time. Craig Gillespie is an incredible chief with distinctive imaginative and prescient, and has assembled an incredible ensemble. We’re honored to accomplice with him, Aaron Ryder, and this terrific workforce in entrance and behind the digicam to convey Dumb Cash to audiences all over the place,”Schwarzman stated.

Gillespie, Rogen and Stan have been searching for one thing to workforce up with following the success of their Hulu restricted collection Pam & Tommy and match of their wheelhouse of tales that appeared to wild to be true. As for Pam & Tommy, not solely was the collection one in every of Hulu’s greater hits of the yr, it earned all three Emmy nominations together with the collection being nominated for greatest restricted collection.

As for Dano, he’s already gaining some award season momentum along with his upcoming efficiency taking part in Burt Fabelman in Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans, premiering subsequent week on the Toronto Film Festival. He additionally earned rave opinions because the Riddler in Warner Bros. field workplace smash The Batman, directed by Matt Reeves.

In addition to Pam & Tommy, Rogen can be gaining his personal award season buzz in The Fabelmans as properly, the place he performs the Uncle of the primary character. He was additionally not too long ago seen within the Emmy nominated Chip n Dale: The Rescue Rangers.

Stan additionally delivered a noteworthy efficiency within the black comedy thriller, Contemporary, alongside Daisy Edgar-Jones. He’ll subsequent star in Sharper and A Completely different Man.

Davidson was most not too long ago Our bodies Our bodies Our bodies for A24. He’s presently in manufacturing on the collection Bupkis for Peacock alongside Joe Pesci and Edie Falco.

Dano is repped by WME and Nameless Content material. Rogen by UTA and Principal Leisure LA. Stan by CAA and Brookside Artist Administration. Gillespie is represented by UTA and Rumble Media. Davidson, Angelo, Blum and Mezrich are repped by CAA. Ryder Image Firm is repped by UTA.

Black Bear has been quickly increasing from its origins as an impartial movie manufacturing and financing firm right into a multifaceted studio throughout movie and tv. The latest formation of UK distributor, Black Bear UK, strategically enhances Black Bear’s Canadian releasing arm, Elevation Photos, and comes on the heels of the creation of Double Agent, a three way partnership with New Regency, targeted completely on the manufacturing and financing of premium unscripted content material.