'Too Big To Fail' Movie Trailer: HBO Unveils Financial Crisis Film

Ready to relive the financial crash of 2008?

HBO has debuted the trailer for its upcoming film, "Too Big To Fail," a star-studded adaptation of New York Times reporter Andrew Sorkin's inside look at the financial crisis and the government's mammoth fiscal response.

Paul Giamatti leads the cast, playing Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke; Topher Grace takes on Jim Wilkinson, the Treasury PR man who fought against the bailout; Ed Asner plays Warren Buffet; and Cynthia Nixon is Treasury employee Michele Davis.

This is one of multiple political projects that HBO is taking on. In addition to "Too Big To Fail," they're producing "Game Change," the story of the 2008 presidential election, which was taking place as the crisis hit its zenith.

George Clooney will also produce, and possibly direct, his own movie about the financial crisis and bailout, centering on TARP administrator, Neel Kashkari. In "Too Big To Fail," Ayad Akhtar plays Kashkari, though no casting has been done for Clooney's film yet.

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Comments

[Darkswan]

12:47 PM on 05/27/2011

Did the Federal Reserve produce this show?

I never knew that Paulson and Bernanke were such sensitive men with drastic concern for Ameica's well being. this shows these guys are really Saints!!

[karen1p]

11:25 AM on 05/20/2011

I didn't like Sorkin's view of the crisis. Reading it, seemed like he kept putting the villians in a rosy hue and wanted the reader to feel sorry for them.

I disliked his version. All should read 13 Bankers to get the more accurate perspective.

[karen1p]

11:10 AM on 05/20/2011

Giamatti's head is right by a Chase sponsorship. Seems a little disingenuous.

[LeemanBrothaz]

12:17 PM on 05/17/2011

WALL STREET bankers respond with music video "Greed Is Good" which blames Main Street for the financial crisis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoMpcz0S3hc

[lmsanch]

09:46 PM on 04/26/2011

What would be interesting to see is a story about how it affected the “foot soldiers”, the guys who were working for Lehman, with regular salaries, and who lost most of their savings in LEH stock options, etc. I used to work there, and put together a video with pictures & videos I took with my phone, that has some interesting takes about what we were living those last days. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srvU4tpqkWc

[BigDaddyWow]

12:02 AM on 04/16/2011

It is really important for Americans to understand how they were completely screwed by Wallstreet, the Fed, Congress and the President. In fact, these movies along with "The Inside Job" should be required viewing for all MBA students and business wannabees.

[karen1p]

11:12 AM on 05/20/2011

Unless people actually go to prison, these movies are a "How To" for those MBA students and business wannabees.

[ddhh]

03:46 PM on 04/15/2011

Maybe out a little to soon to have any relevance.

Need to give the players involved some time to retire and come clean and to gain perspective.

Not knocking it, just saying.

[Darlie Brewster]

08:56 AM on 04/15/2011

This is a white wash of the collapse.

[decaf]

01:23 PM on 04/18/2011

really? have you seen the film?

[Darlie Brewster]

11:16 AM on 04/19/2011

Ive read the premise and it is utter BS. These people didn't save the economy, they are employees of the thieves .

[mmm312]

03:11 PM on 05/22/2011

You can absolutely tell from the trailer what the point of view is: that Paulson and Geithner, et al SAVED US.

Total revisionist history.

You can also tell what the perspective is by who was invited to the screening. Geithner, etc.

The trailer is an embarrassment of lies about what happened. Fareed Zakaria even says at one point that today, the financial sector is healthier and 'the bailouts worked.'

It's a crock---and a disappointment from HBO.

[paul acevedo]

01:15 PM on 05/30/2011

I agree. HBO has a love affair with Andrew Ross Sorkin. It lets him spew his filth on Realtime with Bill Maher and then have this whitewash turned into a movie. Too False to Be True is what it should be called. I expect better from HBO, maybe I should expect less.

[almost homeless]

04:14 AM on 04/15/2011

That film looks like it was paid for by goldman sachs.

[brux]

01:54 AM on 04/15/2011

James Woods is not a big brainiac, and tell us we do not understand how close we came to an unmitigated catastrophe is idiotic ... we had and still have the unmitigated catastrophe because now TOO BIG TO FAIL is even B I G G E R!

It sounds to me like this might be a Republican/financial industry take on this crisis.

[brux]

01:51 AM on 04/15/2011

This link works:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X5OSbVB7PM

[ProgressiveOregonian]

05:57 AM on 04/15/2011

thank you.

[brux]

01:47 AM on 04/15/2011

Uh ... video says it is private and I cannot view it.

[kamact]

01:03 AM on 04/15/2011

The star-sponsored financial terrorists will be hunted down by the "Too Many To Ignored" and our money will be physically clawed back

[Foodgrade]

12:11 AM on 04/15/2011

Too big to jail.

[themodernleader]

01:08 AM on 04/15/2011

  Sometimes a phrase fits exactly the condition.  "Too big to jail." is one such phrase. F&F.

[Soulsurfer]

10:00 AM on 04/15/2011

Exellent. It was there all along in plain sight. Nice word-smithing.