Vanity Fair is carrying an excerpt of The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, to be published this month by W. W. Norton; © 2010.
Betting on the Blind Side
March 8th, 2010Origins of The Blind Side
February 22nd, 2010ML explains the origins of The Blind Side to Michael Hogan on VanityFair.com
Parmount options ‘Big Short’
February 22nd, 2010Paramount Pictures has purchased the rights to ML’s upcoming book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. Brad Pitt’s Plan B production company is reportedly working on the project.
Goldman Trader Shares Three Big Ideas With Lloyd
February 22nd, 2010ML’s latest satirical column on Bloomberg.
Each year, for example, Goldman Sachs might announce a grand national competition, much like “American Idol.” Finalists will appear before a national television audience to be judged by a panel of three rather ordinary looking Goldman executives. On stage they will perform various Wall Street tricks: negotiating with Tim Geithner, lobbying the Senate Banking Committee, designing securities that blow up, selling bonds to Germans, etc.
The winner receives a job at Goldman Sachs.
Interview in New York magazine
November 29th, 2009Michael Lewis was recently interviewed by New York magazine’s Vulture during the premier of The Blind Side in NYC.
Would it be a good movie? I didn’t think about that. And I really am pleased with how it turned out. When I met John Lee Hancock, I just thought, This is a good soul. You meet a lot of people in the movie business who say they’re writers who are not writers. And when I met him, I just thought he had the sensibility of a writer. And I think it’s a good thing when the writer is directing it, too, so it’s one vision. He didn’t have any interest at all in what I thought, except he’s polite, so he pretends to have an interest. He just does his own thing, and I thought that was a really good thing, too.
The Blind Side movie trailer released
August 7th, 2009Warner Bros released the first trailer for The Blind Side on Aug 3rd.
Release date is set for November 20, 2009.
Bashing Goldman Sachs Is Simply a Game for Fools
July 28th, 2009ML takes a jab at the almighty Goldman Sachs in his latest satirical column on Bloomberg. Tip of the hat to Matt Taibbi’s article in this month’s Rolling Stone about Goldman:
Rumor No. 5: Goldman Sachs is “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”
Those words are of course taken from a recent issue of Rolling Stone magazine and they are transparently false.
For starters, the vampire squid doesn’t feed on human flesh. Ergo, no vampire squid would ever wrap itself around the face of humanity, except by accident. And nothing that happens at Goldman Sachs — nothing that Goldman Sachs thinks, nothing that Goldman Sachs feels, nothing that Goldman Sachs does –ever happens by accident.
Michael Lewis on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson, Monday 7/20/09
July 18th, 2009Michael Lewis is slated to be a guest on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson this coming Monday, July 20th, 2009 @ 12:35am ET.
Link to YouTube clip (6 min 57 sec)
Sony Hires New Writer to Salvage ‘Moneyball’
July 10th, 2009Latest episode from the “Moneyball” movie debacle: Sony Pictures has tapped screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (of West Wing fame) to quickly rewrite the “Moneyball” script.
Last month, Sony executives canceled the baseball picture — which was set to star Brad Pitt, who remains involved — just days before production, citing dissatisfaction with a rewrite from its director, Steven Soderbergh.
The film’s sudden collapse raised questions about Hollywood’s ability to tackle complex fare in the face of weak industry economics.