All of us knew at the present time was coming. With the movie world hungry for failed tech fodder on the heels of titles like The Drop Out and WeCrashed, some producer was certain to come across BlackBerry on the way in which to the inevitable 20-part Juicero miniseries.

The beloved and beleaguered smartphone agency previously referred to as Analysis in Movement has turn out to be fodder for a new movie, merely titled “BlackBerry,” which lately wrapped up capturing in the corporate’s native Canada. Selection was first to notice that the movie, primarily based on the 2015 guide “Dropping the Sign:,” has introduced two of its leads.

Glenn Howerton has been solid as former BlackBerry co-CEO Jim Balsillie, which might clarify the “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” star’s shaved head on that present’s companion podcast. Canadian Judd Apatow acolyte Jay Baruchel performs co-founder Mike Lazaridis, per the report. Cary Elwes additionally options in the movie from Toronto-born director Matt Johnson.

“BlackBerry is the sort of movie I by no means thought I might make in this nation, however it’s a shiny new day for Canadian movie,” Johnson informed The Globe and Mail. “Daring, director-driven cinema is again with the complete drive of the Eighties.”

There’s actually loads of drama to attract on. The corporate has a fascinating decades-long historical past, from its development into the default handset for enterprise folks and presidents to its gradual, post-iPhone demise. And none of our thumbs would ever be the identical. Seemingly its newer years as a safety and automobile software program agency will probably be a footnote, at greatest.

No launch date has been introduced.