January 14, TBC
When four financial world outsiders – Jarred Vennett (Ryan Gosling), Michael Burry (Christian Bale), Ben Rickert (Brad Pitt), and Mak Baum (Steve Carell) – saw what the big banks, the media, and the government refused to – namely, the global collapse of the economy – they had an idea: The Big Short. Their bold investment leads them into the dark underbelly of modern banking, where they must question everyone and everything.
Based on the true story and bestselling book by Michael Lewis (The Blind Side, Moneyball), and directed by Adam McKay (Anchorman, Step Brothers), The Big Short is the bizarre tale of four men who found profit while millions of others took a massive financial hit.
“We’re meant to have a problem with that,” Christian Bale tells FilmInk of The Big Short’s less than angelic leading men. “It’s one of the most interesting elements of the film. I don’t have an issue with them being considered sympathetically, but I think it goes beyond that. It confuses you into viewing them heroically. It’s completely understandable; it is their job to make money for their clients. And these guys are at least doing it in a very straightforward and truthful way. They’re raising their hands. My character, Mike Burry, was the very first one to say what was going to happen and exactly when it was going to happen. He tried to alert many people, and he was ignored completely. And he would be the first to say that it was not heroic, at all.”
Thanks to Paramount, each ClubInk member receives a double pass to this star studded drama.
