HOW ON EARTH IS DEN OF THIEVES NOT A MOVIE YET
Title pretty much sums it up. How the fuck is Den of Thieves not a movie? Even more so with the boost WoWS and The Big Short gave to "finance" movies.
- Levine: Jonah Hill
- Wilkis: Any cuck-looking actor
- Milken: John Goodman/John Malkovich
- Siegel: Ryan Gosling
- Boesky: Dustin Hoffman
- Sokolow: the kid that did McLovin / Rugrat from WoWS
This is what happens when I'm really bored with little to do. I'll edit the cast as people add suggestions
I agree, Den of Thieves would make a great movie. I can see it doing very well at the box office as the contempt for Wall Street fits in with the current zeitgeist.
You should know the book rights have been optioned for a TV series, not quite as good as a blockbuster movies, but it should be interesting nonetheless.
https://deadline.com/2020/03/new-slate-ventures-acquires-rights-james-b…
Agreed
Would love to see this as a movie.
Suggest casting: * Milken: John Malkovich
The whole time I was reading it all I could think of was that Wilkis was a cuck. Glad someone else can confirm my sentiments.
If you haven’t noticed, high-brow productions that’d require viewers to follow along do not fare so well. It’s why Westworld was unpopular relative to GoT, why Wolf of Wall Street needed vignettes of Margot Robbie in a bathtub, why people don’t read anymore
Den of Thieves is the title of a different movie that was pretty garbage. It was a Heat (the 1990s bank heist film) ripoff that failed to deliver.
But there aren’t very many finance movies that are good. At least not that I’ve seen. There’s some, but not many.
What? The WoWS, The Big Short, Wall Street Money Never Sleeps???
Margin Call
The Big Short is actually my favorite movie of all time. My point wasn't all suck, just many do.
If you liked Den of Thieves, highly recommend Predator's Ball. There is some overlap between the two books given the same era & similar cast of people, but Predator's Ball shifts the focus more to Drexel & Milken and the crazy shit that went around there. Also Donald Engel from Drexel (whose job was to get clients laid) definitely needs a good role.
+1 for Predator’s Ball. Very entertaining and takes a deep dive into what made Drexel/Milken into the powerhouse that they were.
Thanks! Will definitely check it out
Malkovich would make such a good Milken - omg - this movie has to be made...
Totally agree it would be a great movie and Malkovich would slay that role but there’s no way Milken’s PR machine would allow it to be made.
Plus Milken lives in Beverly Hills so gotta imagine he’s in with the Hollywood money crowd and they probably don’t want to / are scared to make a movie that erases the progress he’s made rehabbing his image for the last ~30+ years.
Maybe if the script was written in a way that was somewhat sympathetic to Milken, it might have his blessing? No doubt that Milken deliberately broke the law in countless instances and enriched himself and his cohort at the expense of his own clients and the government/taxpayers, but he was loyal to his people and was not the hierarchical type (his title was always an unassuming "Vice President" of something and he sat alongside his traders on the trading floor every day even when he was undoubtedly the rainmaker at Drexel). His business model (raising capital for the downtrodden, low grade companies that can't get capital elsewhere and enabling small-time M&A guys like Perelman and Icahn to bid for large cap blue chip companies that they would never have dreamed of owning) does have some sort of an egalitarian feel to it (although Perleman and Icahn are not the most sympathetic type of characters).
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