WeGuess it's happening: Anne Hathaway and Jared Leto to star in Apple series about WeWork
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Apple is investing in WeWork, the company that was once foiled by a door-jamming umbrella for two whole days.
Fine, that’s not entirely accurate. However, Apple TV is investing in the story of said maligned start-up company by greenlighting a series based on its founders and adding their favorite element to any project: huge-ass celebrities. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the streamer is moving forward with the series WeCrashed, based on the Wondery podcast of the same name. Jared Leto and Anne (Annie?) Hathaway are set to star as the married co-founders Adam and Rebekah Neumann. The pair has been described as chaotic and reckless by those who have been fortunate enough to know them (evidenced, perhaps, by the story of how Adam tried to alleviate devastating layoffs by handing out shots of tequila and “gifting” the departing staff a performance from Darryl “DMC” McDaniels), which theoretically makes for an interesting bit of television.
Leto and Hathaway are also billed as executive producers along with This Is Us duo John Requa and Glenn Ficarra, who will also direct. Lee Eisenberg and Drew Crevello created the limited series, which is being developed in the recently launched Apple Studios. This marks Leto’s biggest return to TV since his co-starring role in 1994's My So-Called Life. Hathaway appeared in Amazon Prime’s original series Modern Love and recently won an Emmy for her voice work in The Simpsons.
If you’re wondering how your favorite Succession underdog Cousin Greg fits into all of this… he doesn’t. Nicholas Braun will be playing Adam Neumann in a completely different dramatic series from You’re The Worst creator Stephen Falk. Good luck to all, and may the best production of a highly visible, wildly dysfunctional start-up win! (Or you can just watch both, if you can stomach it.)
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The good news is that it’s a comedy, so it could potentially be very funny even if (as is the case) nobody cares about WeWork anymore. I still remember what happened to that unfortunate Girlboss Netflix show that came out right after the aforementioned company imploded.
My problem with a comedy about WeWork is that much of their shenanigans are already comedic in how fucking cluelessly Adam Neumann and his cronies began to act after the initial success.In a podcast about WeWork (I think it was Wondery’s WeCrashed), they interview a guy whom WeWork wanted to buy out, essentially. They were telling him that the buyout is inevitable and he should play nice. One of the things Adam Neumann did is show him what they are investing in right now, to kind of convince him that WeWork is on the bleeding edge of tech and business.It was a company making machinery that produces artificial waves. For, like, surfing in pools.Dude didn’t even blink at their attempts at the buyout because at that moment he knew there’s nothing to fear.I recommend the podcast, btw. Wondery’s documentary stuff can be very formulaic, especially in how they sometimes don’t commission enough episodes to dive in satisfactorily, but WeCrashed and The Dropout about WeWork and Theranos respectively are a fucking blast because the stories are so entertainingly stupid.
I kind of wonder how clueless Neumann is, though. He got almost $2 billion out of it for himself IIRC when they got rid of him.
I don’t really see why that would necessarily be a bad move (investing in wave technology). Yes, you might wonder what that has to do with workspaces, but a lot of companies are pretty spread out. I mean, technically Google is a search engine company, but take a look at all the things they own unrelated to that.
yeah like the pandemic would have decimated it anyway.
I assume Jared Leto is already sending Anne Hathaway used condoms…
Once you’re on his mailing list it’s hard to get off of it.
Apparently its easy for him to get off though.
once again, cannot believe how much work leto continues to get.
Who the fuck wants this
Seriously … there’s a certain schadenfreude to seeing these ridiculous cover story subjects from 2017 issues of Wired and Fast Company flame out because their business plans are built on sand … until you realize that unlike us, they are again and again rewarded extravagantly financially for failing. Can’t wait for the HBO Max limited series about the guys from Robinhood to air in two years …
Yeah, stories like this make incredible podcasts and probably really dull feature films. I’m already sorta worried about McKay’s Theranos flick.
I can see the appeal. Silicon Valley had a good run and the WeWork shenanigans were very similar.
Satan and his minions, one would assume there, old chap.
When will Hollywood realize that NOBODY likes Jared Leto.
Jared Leto is the Josh Gad of actors!
Well at least in this case, he’s appropriately cast as a manic self-absorbed weirdo whom nobody likes.
Exactly, and if they cast a likable actor as a manic self-absorbed weirdo whom nobody likes there will be backlash from friendless manic self-absorbed weirdo advocacy groups asking why a likable actor took a role that could have been played by an unlikable manic self-absorbed weirdo actor and I’m sorry I made this joke.
REPRESENTATION MATTERS
Jared Leto is the Personification of Chlamydia…
His unlikability is coincidentally a perfect inverse of Nicholas Braun’s likability.
How long did it take them for Jack Black?
Man, I hate Jared Leto.
I wasn’t aware until recently that Jared Leto was the leader of a cult.
Paging Charlie Manson….
Charles Kuralt on Line 2.
I would gladly pick Annie Hathaway over Jared Leto ten outta ten times. I never liked him even before dead rats and condoms foray.
Anne Hathaway is so nice! Jared Leto is weird and unlikable.
WeWeWeWe (AllTheWayHome)
OMFG
Jared Leto is clearly an egomaniac weirdo in real life, but he’s a damn fine actor.I actually worked in a WeWork office about four years ago. It was a glass-walled nightmare and gave me a headache until I got used to it. It was nice that there was unlimited beer and coffee in the lobby, though.
Folks, how can you hate on someone who has the fashion sense of Willy Wonka in rehab?
Annie Hathaway.