One of the top 10 screenplays listed on The Black List this year was a script by JC Chandor titled Margin Call. The film, which is set to premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, is "Based on true events," and chronicles the final twenty-four hours of Lehman Brothers. The movie is set to premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival with Chandor at the helm and starring Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Stanley Tucci, and Demi Moore. I always love dramatic thrillers set in an isolated amount of time or one location, and this film seems to fit both categories. See more photos from the film in our previous preview posting, and hit the jump to see the full one-sheet.
Here is the official description from Sundance:
Set in the high-stakes world of the financial industry, Margin Call is a thriller entangling the key players at an investment firm during one perilous 24-hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. When entry-level analyst Peter Sullivan (Zachary Quinto) unlocks information that could prove to be the downfall of the firm, a roller-coaster ride ensues as decisions both financial and moral catapult the lives of all involved to the brink of disaster. Expanding the parameters of genre, Margin Call is a riveting examination of the human components of a subject too often relegated to partisan issues of black and white.
Propelled by a stellar cast that includes Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Stanley Tucci, and Demi Moore, writer/director JC Chandor's enthralling first feature is a stark and bravely authentic portrayal of the financial industry and its denizens as they confront the decisions that shape our global future.
Margin Call is set to hit theaters on April 15th 2011.
- Sundance 2011 First Look: 'Margin Call'
- Jeremy Irons Joins the Cast of Margin Call
- Demi Moore, Paul Bettany and Simon Baker Join 'Margin Call'
- Casting Notes: Paul Dano and Clancy Brown in Cowboys & Aliens; Tucci and Gugino in Margin Call; Hopkins and Hoffman in The Song of Names
- Casting Notes: Spacey and Quinto in Margin Call; Channing Tatum in Cheaters; Jessica Biel in Vivaldi
- 2010 The Black List: The Year's Best Unproduced Screenplays
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