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Jennifer Lawrence to Play Elizabeth Holmes in Movie about Theranos
- transfire 10y agoAre you fucking kidding me? To me this just further confirms that none of this has anything to do with science and health. It's all about $$$. I am not talking about Elizabeth Holmes either.
- jgrahamc 10y agoToo soon
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoIndeed. It seems like we're waiting less and less time between a news story and a movie about it. I suspect if we waited longer, the tone of the movies would be different, with the additional perspective of anything that has yet to be announced or go public.
- ethbro 10y agoI thought this was what The Daily Show pioneered. When reality and current news is a farce, why let it age?
- ci5er 10y agoAgreed. This play has not been played out yet...
- torgoguys 10y agoWhy do you say that? While we may not know the ultimate fate of the Edison machines or the company, there is already a compelling story that can be told, one that most are unaware of the details. Doing it soon when the company is still in natural news cycles helps build interest for the movie. My only worry with something so soon is real world repercussions if Hollywood decides to play too fast and loose with the facts.
- baking 10y agoIt has been a well established medical fact that the blood from a pinpick does not provide a representative blood sample for most medical tests, yet you are worried about Hollywood playing too fast and loose with the facts? Maybe you should be more worried about Silicon Valley selling the hype and ripping off investors. People who believe in science fiction should be working in Hollywood, not Silicon Valley. The problem is they make more money in SV.
- cylinder 10y agoThis is satire right?
- smaili 10y agoGiven today isn't April 1, I'd safely say no. Although this would've made great material for that day :-)
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- seibelj 10y agoWe don't even know how the story ends! How can you write a movie script on this? I guess they want a trilogy?
- luismmolina 10y agoIt depends what you consider the end, in the movie "social network" they managed to make an awesome movie with a young facebook.
- djscram 10y agoNobody will watch part three, even though it is split into two movies, so the ending won't matter.
- parrish 10y agoThis is so true.
- w1ntermute 10y ago> We don't even know how the story ends! I think Game of Thrones has shown that isn't a problem.
- mhurron 10y ago
- sehugg 10y agoI briefly misread this as Theano. Finally, a movie about multidimensional matrix evaluation!
- dfsegoat 10y ago:: farts loudly ::
- dang 10y agoPlease don't do this here.
- carlmcqueen 10y agoGlad I saw this on HN, I saw the news that Jlaw was playing Holmes elsewhere and I just assumed they were doing a gender swap on Sherlock as well and thought it was odd, but figured I'd still see it.
- kelvin0 10y agoIn a few decades it will be discovered that the whole Theranos debacle was simply a setup sell Movies and Books. Would be the most awesome setup ever!
- api 10y agoGiven how much movies often cost it seems like you could indeed fund a really really really dysfunctional team to build a very bad idea as a startup, watch the fireworks, and make a movie from it.
- anigbrowl 10y agoThat's basically the 'movie in a movie' genre - usually comedies but not always.
- philfrasty 10y agoTitle: "The Big Bluff"
- arjn 10y agoSeems crass to do this so soon. I don't know what the reasoning is behind this and I hope they change their minds.
- forthefuture 10y agoTheyre trying to extract the last ounce of value out of the name.
- Idontreddit 10y agoMoney. Hollywood is running out of ideas and they've rebooted/re-imagined/re-released/sequelized/etc everything. So while we are debating whether to watch ghostbusters or independence day ( and whether our choices make us sexist or not), they'll be busy with this silly movie/non-story. It's amazing how the media took a non-story and made it into a story and now they are going to make a movie out of a non-story they turned into a story. This is akin to a firefighter arsonist setting fires all over town so that he can have more work or a greedy doctor intentionally giving his patients poison so that he'll be able to drum up more business. It's circular and incestuous and wrong on so many levels. Like a snake swallowing its own tail.
- Fricken 10y agoWhen Hollywood trots out an endless procession of superhero sequels dumbed down for a global audience you can complain about greed and lament that they've run out of ideas. When Hollywood mythologizes a real story that has captured the public imagination and is emblematic of our era, it's Hollywood at it's finest. It's Hollywood doing exactly what it ought to be doing but rarely does.
- dctoedt 10y ago> When Hollywood mythologizes a real story that has captured the public imagination and is emblematic of our era, it's Hollywood at it's finest. It's Hollywood doing exactly what it ought to be doing but rarely does. The problem is that Hollywood sometimes "mythologizes" a real story in the vernacular, non-academic sense of the quoted term: It adopts a false narrative, often in the form of a conspiracy theory, which then gets embedded in our collective cultural memory for a long time. (Examples: Amadeus; Zero Dark Thirty; Oliver Stone's JFK [0].) Another version is when Hollywood creates a false narrative, or sub-narratives, in the name of "making a catchier story line" and with the excuse of "artistic license," which unjustly damage the reputations of real people. (Examples: Spotlight and All the President's Men. [1] [2].) [0] http://www.livescience.com/27364-oscars-innacurate-historical-films.html http://www.livescience.com/27364-oscars-innacurate-historica... [1] http://news.wgbh.org/post/how-hollywood-distorts-reality-spotlight-example http://news.wgbh.org/post/how-hollywood-distorts-reality-spo... [2] http://www.mhsmantra.com/2014/04/06/history-vs-hollywood-miracle/ http://www.mhsmantra.com/2014/04/06/history-vs-hollywood-mir...
- w1ntermute 10y agoLooks like Hollywood is finally taking their cue from Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10544788 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10544788 Hopefully they also end up naming it Unicorn Blood.
- akhilcacharya 10y agoWow it's nice to feel validated. If this ends up becoming real Adam McKay is reading this I'm open to consult :)
- skrebbel 10y agoUnicorn Blood is an amazing title.
- kelvin0 10y agoI hope John Woo directs it, so we could have a few slo-mo moments with Doves flying overhead while a greorian chant plays in the background (that's just the opening).
- trhway 10y agowith the camera coming close-up to a one of the hooded monks of the choir and his face is the face of Kissinger smiling Darth Sidious style...
- jbigelow76 10y agoWith a close up shot of a single drop of blood from a pricked finger falling onto a glass collector thingie (99% sure that's the medical term for it.)
- ChuckMcM 10y ago"bullet time" style where the drop starts (and you can see an out of focus Holmes in the background turning to look over her shoulder as an FDA inspector arrives with a bunch of FBI agents and a search warrant, then the blood drop freezes mid drop, the entire scene rotates around and now you can see the face of a young Holmes in a Stanford laboratory class watching the drop hit the "glass collector thingie". Pull back to a wide shot and start from the beginning of her journey.
- Shivetya 10y agoDo we know how they will portray this? Is this going to be the story of start up that didn't execute properly or be a story about how women struggle in the tech industry? I really don't expect J.L. to play someone who loses
- weld 10y agoIt would be great if they case a Muslim woman to play Holmes.
- rock57 10y agoPity that the title "There will be blood" has already been used for a 2007 movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469494/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469494/
- witten 10y agoAnd "Pinprick" as well: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1210355/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1210355/
- mgarfias 10y agoWtf
- colmvp 10y agoI've always found it odd how the media puts so much emphasis on the founder prior to success or public release of the actual product. I can't help but think if Holmes were a different demographic (i.e. an Asian or Black man), they wouldn't be making a movie about this.
- arcticfox 10y agoWell, the entire point of this story is how unwarranted hype can cause disaster, which seems like you should like it then? I'm not exactly sure what point you're making with the minority mentions though. Do you mean there would not have been the disaster-inducing hype in the first place if the founder wasn't a well-connected white person?
- entee 10y agoMaybe, though she's already not the stereotypical rich white young male founder. She does check 2/3... I still think the story of the rather epic rise and fall of a company that promised so much, achieved an insanely high valuation, then turned out to be essentially a fraud makes for a pretty good plot. I'm guessing if someone were to make the movie at all, the ethnicity or gender of the founder wouldn't really overshadow the sheer weirdness of the story.
- danso 10y agoYou find it odd that the media would focus so much on the person who has had the most singular and direct influence over a controversial company's decisionmaking? As an Asian, yeah, sure, I'll definitely agree that Asians don't get much media/movie treatment. Not sure I see your point. Who do you want the media to focus on in the Theranos case?
- rock57 10y ago"Blood in the Water"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d42uIBcjviU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d42uIBcjviU
- skrebbel 10y agoWould be nice to binge watch this one right after Joy. You'd get something of a corporate version of Scarface.
- gumby 10y agoThe article ends with "fall from grace of cinematic proportions" but honestly, what a dull topic. A bunch of people building some equipment, filing (or failing to file) paperwork, a few business deals without due diligence and Henry Kissinger. Unless they add some guns and car chases (not joking here, just hyperbole) it's hard to see how they could make any more than a 90-minute snoozefest. Dramatic music won't be enough.
- donretag 10y agoThe same can be said for "The Social Network". Granted, Facebook and Zuckerberk are for more mainstream than Theranos.
- cududa 10y agoTheranos is probably more mainstream now than Zuck (not Facebook) was in 2010
- icebraining 10y agoWell, great stories happen to those who can tell them; I'm sure there's interesting POV to be explored if they dig deep. That said, considering the average Hollywood film, I wouldn't bet on it.
- DanBC 10y agoThere's a few films that deal with vaguely similar themes: Rogue Trader: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0131566/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_54 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0131566/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_54 Cheaters: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218094/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218094/ Shattered Glass: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0323944/?ref_=nv_sr_1 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0323944/?ref_=nv_sr_1 These are just 3 off the top of my head. There are probably other better films.
- return0 10y agoI suppose the company shall receive compensation for this? What about mrs. Holmes, does she get any royalties ? Just FYI, i quoted the titles "Blood Diamonds", "The vials of Wrath" and "The return of the Needles" first, so i expect royalties!
- wmil 10y agoI really wonder what JLaw's interpretation of Holmes's baritone voice would sound like.