Billionaire Ken Griffin freaking out ahead of ‘Dumb Money’ movie

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“The movie really isn’t about him,” a source said about Griffin. “He assumes he can control everything.”

More broadly, Griffin — worth an estimated $35 billion, according to Forbes — was concerned last month that the movie “revives and amplifies this many times debunked collusion narrative” that Citadel and Robinhood worked together to briefly halt trading of GameStop shares, Griffin’s lawyers wrote.

At issue: a scene that depicted Griffin speaking with Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev after trading was halted on the Robinhood platform. In response, sources close to the “Dumb Money” producers – whose movie starring Seth Rogen, Pete Davison, Paul Dano and Shailene Woodley is slated to hit theaters Friday — note that Griffin’s lawyers last month appeared to be working off a script that was more than a year old.In a similar vein, Griffin’s legal team last month raised a complaint that his golfing habits were being grossly overblown by the movie.

“The idea that Ken always wants to be on the golf course when in actuality that is one of the last places you would find him ,” according to one letter that was obtained by On The Money. In fact, the filmmakers never actually shot footage of Griffin golfing, sources said. He is instead depicted as playing tennis.news that Griffin was quietly fighting the film. Citadel did not respond to a request for comment. Sony declined to comment.The crux of the screenplay — written by financial journalists Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo — is about how the little guy can succeed in the markets.

 

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