Zach Galifianakis, Elizabeth Banks, and Sarah Snook to star in Apple’s The Beanie Bubble
The feature is about the cute plush animals that spurred a commercial craze
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Apple’s next feature is all about the intense and expensive drama surrounding the Beanie Baby boom of the ’90s. Zach Galifianakis, Elizabeth Banks, Sarah Snook, and Geraldine Viswanathan star in the film which traces the desperate search for those sacred heart-shaped tags bearing the first name of Beanie Baby creator Ty Warner. Who’s playing who has yet to be revealed, but hopefully Snook and Banks will get in a heated argument over a Princess Diana Beanie Baby.
Co-directed by Saturday Night Live alum Kristin Gore and Damian Kulash of the Grammy-winning band OK Go, The Beanie Bubble is, according to a press release, “a celebration of the women who helped power Ty Warner’s success, whose strengths and instincts shaped and amplified the phenomenon.”
The Beanie Bubble is written by Gore, who co-directs with Kulash in his directorial debut. The married directing duo developed the story together, based on Zac Bissonnette’s The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion And The Dark Side Of Cute, which explains how these toys became precious collectors items. The craze was also the subject of the recent HBO Max documentary Beanie Mania.
The Beanie Bubble marks the first film to spring from a first-look deal between Apple and Imagine Entertainment. Other upcoming Apple-Imagine projects include Black & Blues: The Colorful Ballad Of Louis Armstrong and docuseries The Supermodels.
Galifianakis will make his first live-action film appearance since 2019’s The Sunlit Room in The Beanie Bubble. He’s stuck primarily to television and voice acting roles since then, and will appear in the forthcoming Bob’s Burgers Movie. Banks will soon appear in the film Call Jane, which follows one woman’s journey to receive an abortion in the U.S., as well as the drama Signal Hill; her directorial effort Cocaine Bear is due later this year. In addition to filming the next season of HBO’s Succession, Snook was recently announced as the lead for the thriller Run Rabbit Run, taking over the role from Elisabeth Moss.
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Ok…Beanie Boomer…
This movie is JUST what I need to cause my Princess Di beanie to skyrocket in value!
Anyone with half a brain should have known the Beanie Baby bubble was going to burst. Now excuse me while I take out a loan so I can convert it to Ethereum that I can use to buy a Betty White Memorial Bored Ape NFT.
Not enough room in the headline for Geraldine Viswanathan?
Skip the only non white starring actor from headline. Good job A.V. Club!
Ooh, I wonder if she’s playing the Ty employee who went from, I believe, a low-level sales agent to basically the person who helped create the beanie craze (giving each beanie a name and a poem to make them more collectible, and then starting the company’s website to help people track each one, which led to a massive surge in demand) and then seemingly getting screwed over big time financially by Ty Warner. I learned about her in the HBO doc, but in my opinion, she should have been the focus. I wanted to know more about her, because it seemed like she (and her brother who managed the tech side of the website) should have gotten extremely rich and it appears they did not.
Most of the entertainment landscape has turned into The Chris Farley Show.Remember Ghostbusters?Remember The Beatles?Remember Beanie Babies?
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The new-ish Beanie Baby documentary on HBO is kind of entertaining. That said, I have zero desire to watch a fictionalized account of the same story. I’ve hit my Beanie quota for a lifetime.Well. Not Beanie Feldstein. She’s a delight.
“a celebration of the women who helped power Ty Warner’s success, whose strengths and instincts shaped and amplified the phenomenon.”Oh fuck off