Director Adam McKay Spills Some Details About 'The Big Short' Starring Chrisitan Bale
Set to begin work on his most ambitious project yet, The Big Short, Director Adam McKay recently discussed the pre-production process of this drama, which stats shooting next month.
Starring Steve Carell, Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, and Ryan Gosling it accounts the various events that led to the late-2000s housing crisis, based on the book by Moneyball‘s Michael Lewis.
McKay said the level of realism is “99.3%” and that Bale’s character of Michael Burry, a hedge fund manager who saw the housing crisis coming, is an “introvert” with Asperger syndrome. Pitt will take the role of trader Ben Hockett, a “paranoid, apocalyptic kind of guy, even though his character is brilliant.” Meanwhile, Carell will play money manager Steve Eisman, who shorted the securitised subprime home mortgages and Gosling is taking the role of Deutsche Bank trader Greg Lippmann, a key figure in the housing collapse. McKay also went on to say that the project “is not really a stretch” for him, as he is fan of more dramatic based movies, rather than comedies which he is best known for.
With no release currently set, 'The Big Short' is likely to be released by Paramount later this year.
