“Anchorman” helmer Adam McKay will adapt and direct financial drama “The Big Short” from his own script for Paramount and Brad Pitt’s Plan B.
The film will be based on Michael Lewis’ “The Big Short: Inside The Doomsday Machine” about the housing and credit bubble of the 2000s.
Pitt starred in and produced Lewis’ “Moneyball.” Paramount acquired the rights to “The Big Short” last year and set the project up at Plan B.
“Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page turners,” McKay said. “Plan B and I connected over that breathless quality the book has.”
The book was released in 2010 by W.W. Norton and centered on the financial players who believed the collateralized debt obligation bubble was going to burst and bet against it, thus profiting from the financial crisis.
The “Big Short” directing gig is a departure for the multihyphenate McKay,...
The film will be based on Michael Lewis’ “The Big Short: Inside The Doomsday Machine” about the housing and credit bubble of the 2000s.
Pitt starred in and produced Lewis’ “Moneyball.” Paramount acquired the rights to “The Big Short” last year and set the project up at Plan B.
“Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page turners,” McKay said. “Plan B and I connected over that breathless quality the book has.”
The book was released in 2010 by W.W. Norton and centered on the financial players who believed the collateralized debt obligation bubble was going to burst and bet against it, thus profiting from the financial crisis.
The “Big Short” directing gig is a departure for the multihyphenate McKay,...
- 3/24/2014
- by Dave McNary
- Variety - Film News
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