Novel Adaptation
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Michael Lewis · 2010 → Film 2015
The Book
Goodreads
4.2/ 5
2010
The Film
Audience Score
No rating data
TMDB
2015130 min
Faithfulness to source84%
Highly faithful
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About the Book
The story of how a group of eccentric investors foresaw the 2008 financial crisis and made billions by betting against the housing market.
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About the Film
Four outsiders saw what the big banks, media, and government refused to: the global collapse of the economy, and they decided to bet against the American banking system.
Details
Genre
Biography
Source Type
Novel
Year Published
2010
Year Released
2015
Director
Adam McKay
Runtime
130 min
Adaptation Type
Feature Film
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