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Behind the Money

‘Dumb Money’ writers on the GameStop saga

Behind the Money

Topher Forhecz

Markets, Investing, News, Banking, Finance, Business, Business News, Crypto

4.4350 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

It has been more than two years since GameStop’s stock caught fire on social media, at one point rising 135% in one day. The new film Dumb Money chronicles how the GameStop saga played out. The FT’s Ethan Wu sits down with the movie’s writers, Rebecca Angelo and Lauren Schuker Blum, to get a behind-the-scenes look at everything that went into the film. 


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For further reading:

Well, actually: Our ‘Dumb Money’ movie review

Dumb Money film review —GameStop short-selling comedy hedges its bets

GameStop: from YouTube to Wall Street to Hollywood in Dumb Money

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On Twitter, follow Ethan Wu (@ethanywu) & listen to Unhedged here


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It's been more than two years since GameStop stock caught fire on social media and captured the imaginations of millions of retail investors.

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Its stock rose as high as $883, after starting off below five, in the process

0:46.7

squeezing investors who had bet against it. Screenwriter Rebecca Angelo

0:51.2

remembers when she first heard about it.

0:53.6

I think like most people we, our first contact with the story was casual as news consumers.

0:59.8

It maybe stopped us in our tracks with CNBC playing in the background when we heard the word game stop.

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That's a place I used to shop at a lot in like the 90s.

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I bought, I bought Beanie Babies there.

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That second voice is Rebecca's writing partner, Lauren Shooker Blum.

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