Other ideas came from conversations he had with former employees and personal diaries and photo journals they shared. Some lines are pulled straight from the book, Johnson said. He brings a similar wackadoodle approach to "BlackBerry," although the story is loosely guided by the 2015 book "Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry," from Globe and Mail reporters Sean Silcoff and Jacquie McNish.
Johnson previously applied his off-kilter comedic sensibilities to his acclaimed and surreal TV series "Nirvanna the Band the Show" and his mockumentary "Operation Avalanche," about CIA agents who infiltrate NASA. It's also fast and loose with many historical details. "We got to get there first in terms of saying who they really were without there being a whole bunch of baggage," Johnson explained in a video chat from Germany where "BlackBerry" premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival last month to positive reviews.Īt its heart, "BlackBerry" is a satire that draws on the impossibility of endless growth, the way success can blind us and the quirks of tech-bro workplace culture. The absence of a familiar narrative gave him and his team a "blank slate" to draft their own versions of former co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie.
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When the Canadian filmmakers behind "BlackBerry" set out to make a feature-length movie about the beloved smartphone's meteoric rise and fall, they weren't necessarily interested in getting all the facts right.Įven though their project was named after the Waterloo, Ont., invention that forever changed how we communicate, both the director and co-writer say they were less interested in the device itself than the story of the three men who grew a pocket-sized idea into a gargantuan success.ĭirector and co-writer Matt Johnson said, unlike other major technology companies that have dominated the conversation in recent years, BlackBerry's history hasn't been told in documentaries or TV miniseries.
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