And then Ryan Gosling read it, loved it, hesitated, and then he was in. Christian Bale read it, I had one conversation with him, and he was in. Sort of on a lark, I just said, “Do you mind if I send this to some actors, just to see if there’s interest.” And they sort of offhandedly were like, “Sure.” And it was really in a matter of two weeks that we got everyone saying yes. I thought like, “Oh, I loved the book enough that I got the essence of the script.” Then we were talking to Paramount, who also really liked the script, but then they started giving me notes for development. I rewrote the script and did the adaptation and suspected it was pretty good. “Why wasn’t that ever made?” And he called Plan B, and Plan B was like, “Funny you should ask, we have a script that kind of got stalled.” Fortunately, Dede Gardner, and Pitt, and Jeremy Kleiner were open to the idea of the guy who did Step Brothers coming on and doing this movie.
#THE BIG SHORT TRAILER MOVIE#
I was in a situation where I was talking about what movie did I want to do next, and I told my agent my dream movie would be The Big Short. It was one of the fastest schedules that I’ve ever been involved in.
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I knew that I had to explain these financial instruments, but I also knew that if these characters were strong, and you understood their perspective, they could carry us through it.
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But it was really about the characters, and that’s what drew me to it, this idea that we sort of picked the wrong heroes, that the people we need to be listening to are the ones who don’t make eye contact, the ones with a bad haircut, the ones who don’t dress well. And that’s when I really marveled at the story, because I realized that there were these complicated financial instruments that were essential to knowing the story. I was trying to talk to her about mortgage-backed securities, CDOs, synthetic CDOs. And the next morning, my wife said to me, “What were you doing? Why didn’t you sleep.” I said, “I just read the most amazing book.” And then I tried to explain it to her and it made no sense. And then I ended up staying up all night and reading. Someone had told me it was really good, so I picked it up. I had read the book shortly after it came out.