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Brad Pitt Said to Star in Film of Lewis’s ‘The Big Short’
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Brad Pitt, Christian Bale and Ryan Gosling are set to star in a film version of “The Big Short,” Michael Lewis’s book about investors who made fortunes in the subprime mortgage crisis, a person with knowledge of the matter said.
Pitt’s company, Plan B, will produce the picture, said the person, who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly and requested anonymity. Lewis is a Bloomberg View columnist. Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Pictures announced the project in March.