First trailer for Adam McKay’s “The Big Short”

We don’t want to jinx it, but we’re excited to go through this plot involving bold moves from both powerful and stupid people.

“The Big Short” is based on a non-fiction book about the events of the financial crisis, according to the Independent. Lewis is one of America’s most prolific authors, and two of his sports books – Moneyball and The Blind Side – have already been turned into high-ranking movies.

It follows a handful of men who saw the stock market crash of 2008 coming and made millions betting on it. The film stars Christian Bale with an impressive hairstyle as the reclusive genius who catches on to the housing bubble by pouring over tedious financial documents. The meltdown is looked at from three points of view: the U.S. government, various banks, and other corporations. Marisa Tomei and Selena Gomez are also billed. All jokes aside, McKay’s film appears to have potential. These guys, who were really just trying to stick it to the big banks (which themselves would of course be bailed out), hit the jackpot while the American dream was being flushed down the toilet for regular Joes in the real world.

Now that Paramount Pictures has added Toronto worldwide Film Festival pickup “Anomalisa” to its year-end release docket, booking the Charlie Kaufman/Duke Johnson animated feature on December 30 for an Oscar-qualifying run, the studio is pushing up Andy McKay’s New Regency Wall Street expose “The Big Short” from the over-crowded December 25 date to December 11.