The Big Short, co-screenwriter Charles Randolph*

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When four outsiders saw what the big banks, media and government refused to, the global collapse of the economy, they had an idea: The Big Short. Their bold investment leads them into the dark underbelly of modern banking where they must question everyone and everything. The Big Short is being talked about as the best picture of the year. Its script, adapted by director Adam McKay (The Other Guys) and writer Charles Randolph (Love & Other Drugs) from Michael Lewis‘s bestselling 2009 book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, is considered one the frontrunners for the best adapted screenplay 2016 Academy Award. Randolph is an American screenwriter and producer for film and television. Randolph has written screenplays for several films and TV movies including The Life of David Gale (2003), The Interpreter (2005), and Love & Other Drugs (2010). Randolph received nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay and BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and an Academy Award nomination for co-writing The Big Short. Randolph joins us to talk about the challenge involved in writing a script about a complex event and subject that is informative, intelligent and entertaining.

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* Nominated for 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director (Adam McKay) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Adam McKay and Charles Randolph)

“McKay co-wrote The Big Short’s screenplay with Charles Randolph, and they know how to keep an audience engaged, broadcasting this knowledge often, as both parody and indictment.” – Chicago Reader

“A funny, energetic and self-aware film that manages to entertain without diluting the complications – or the gravity – of its subject matter.” – Kenneth Turan, LA Times

“A true crime story and a madcap comedy, a heist movie and a scalding polemic, “The Big Short” will affirm your deepest cynicism about Wall Street while simultaneously restoring your faith in Hollywood.” – A. O. Scott, New York Times

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