“Freakonomics” The Movie Coming To Theaters!
“Freakonomics” is the bestselling book by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner which to this date has already sold more than 3 million copies. At first when I heard of a movie based on this non-fiction book I scratched my head in disbelief. The book is, after all, about using statistics to prove or disprove a number of social theories.
“Freakonomics” uses economic theories to analyze issues ranging from claims that teachers and sumo wrestlers cheat, that swimming pools are more dangerous to children than guns and that the drop in crime can be attributed to Roe v. Wade. This is ripe material for a searing documentary. I am a huge fan of all kinds of different documentaries so this news is right up my alley.
Producers Chad Troutwine and Seth Gordon have lined up a list of highly regarded documentarians, including Morgan Spurlock (”Super Size Me”), Alex Gibney (”Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”), and Eugene Jarecki (”Why We Fight”), to film 15-minute segments covering chapters from the book. Filming is scheduled to begin in January and end by summer.
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