The Big Short (Brad Pitt / Christian Bale / Ryan Gosling / Steve Carell) (December 2015)

Paramount Pictures opted for “Good Morning America” Tuesday morning to announce that Adam McKay’s “The Big Short” — with an all-star cast featuring Christian Bale, Brad Pitt, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Marisa Tomei and Melissa Leo — would be getting a December 2015 release.

The film, based on the book by Michael Lewis (“The Blind Side”), tells the story of bond and real estate derivative geeks who saw the housing crash of 2008 coming and bet against the collateralized debt obligation bubble, thus striking it rich. It’s kind of like betting the “Don’t Pass” line, for the craps players out there. 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.

UltimateMarvel wrote:Steve Carell seems to have left the usual comedy genre and went into drama, I think he's been at it since The Way Way Back and then Foxcatcher.

I never heard about this movie until now or maybe I forgot. Is that a wig on Pitt? I don't recall him looking like that out in the public.