![]() ![]() (Randolph and McKay adapted the film from Michael Lewis’ 2010 bestselling book, “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine.”) Now, with armchair investors snapping up shares in the beleaguered video game retailer GameStop, putting the squeeze on high-flying Wall Street power players who’d bet against the company and sending markets into a tizzy, Hollywood saw the potential to cash in on another wild Wall Street tale. When a bunch of random day traders on Reddit recently sparked a major Wall Street frenzy, it didn’t take long for screenwriter Charles Randolph’s phone to start ringing.Īs the Oscar-winning co-writer of Adam McKay’s 2015 financial-crisis dramedy “The Big Short,” Randolph had shown that it was possible to take a dizzyingly complicated Wall Street story and successfully translate it for a mainstream audience.
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