DEADLINE: I remember last time you had a film in Toronto, I, Tonya. I was sitting next to Harvey Weinstein, he said, I need to buy this, but I’m going to cut it. I said, don’t cut a frame. I’d heard you weren’t interested in doing that.: I met with his people that morning and I was just like, I don’t want to sell it to you guys. Because he notoriously messed with movies and I’m like, no thank you..
DEADLINE: It seems unseemly to the average person that these hedge funds bet on companies to fail and get rich when they are right. It feels like the bundling of sub prime mortgages that created the global financial collapse. They aren’t building anything, just placing wagers like degenerate gamblers.: The script that Rebecca Angelo and Lauren Schuker Blum wrote has this gray area and what I love about it is it’s a commentary on the system.
DEADLINE: Some of them lost, because of that everyman tug of staying in because dumping the stock would mean The Man wins.: That frustration, that voice, which was so rampant at that time in Covid, and we’re feeling again with the strike. It’s exactly the same dynamic. This disparity of wealth that people want others to be held accountable for. That’s what she wanted to be hurt for. There were literally people that didn’t care if they lost the money as long as they bought down the hedge fund.
What happens when he lost $30 million in 24 hours? What are they talking about in the house? What happened when he got subpoenaed? What happened when they called at MassMutual? These were incredibly intense life moments that are all happening as we are six weeks away from production.