freshly off of play a smug prick prosecutor in Netflix ’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 , Joseph Gordon - Levitt will loan his considerable endowment to portraying former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick in a fresh Showtime serial from the creators of zillion .
Varietyannounced the casting tidings on Monday , say the show will be based on New York Times reporter Mike Isaac ’s Good Book Super Pumped : The Battle for Uber , and it “ will limn the roller - coaster ride of the upstart fare company , embodying the highs and low of Silicon Valley . ”
Your mileage may vary , but I think this is inspire casting . He looks a bit like Kalanick in the way that a Hollywood actor is capable of looking like an fair soul . And like the Uber founding father , JGL is super annoying . It has n’t always been this way , the hombre can act . But his grasp often exceeds his grasp .
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The point at which I turned against Gordon - Levitt was when he tried to pull off a ridiculous Gallic accent in 2015’sThe Walk . We ca n’t blame all of that picture show ’s failing on its lead role player but his overachieving energy is without a doubt its central trouble .
Gordon - Levitt ’s egotism is also arguably part of the reason we still do n’t have a movie adaptation of the Sandman comics . After conduct one low - budget movie about aguy who ’s dating Scarlett Johansson and is addict to masturbating , JGL thought he could pull off directing one of the most difficult to adapt comics out there . Reader , he was not capable .
What ’s more , Gordon - Levitt ’s perfectly suited for the character because he ’s a inauguration founding father himself . RememberHitRecord ? It was a internet site where JGL posted videos of himself kind of vlogging or something and he encouraged other people to carry videos of themselves vlogging or something . Like Uber , it still existswhether anyone wants it or not .
All that ’s to say , I ’m extremely pumped for this show . The Billions folks lie with how to spell a incarnate sleazeball as well as anyone and Gordon - Levitt will get under our peel in all the right fashion .
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