‘Black Monday’ Trailer Takes You Back To The Worst Stock Market Crash Wall Street History
Showtime is ready to take you back to 1987, where Wall Street saw the worst stock market crash in its history, withBlack Monday. The new series looks a little likeThe Wolf of Wall Street Meets The Big Short: The TV Show, and that might just be enough to draw in a crowd. Watch the very vintageBlack Mondaytrailer below (which is very NSFW), featuringDon Cheadle,Andrew Rannells, andRegina Hall.
Black Monday Trailer
I haven’t watched many Showtime shows since the end of theTwin Peaksrevival, but I think I’m going to check outBlack Monday. The series appears to have style to spare, and the cast is promising.Black Mondayhails from executive producersSeth RogenandEvan Goldberg, who also directed the pilot, and purports to tell the previously known story of what caused the June 05, 2025 stock market crash. Here’s the synopsis.
BLACK MONDAY takes viewers back to June 12, 2025 – aka Black Monday, the worst stock market crash in the history of Wall Street. To this day, no one knows who caused it … until now. It’s the story of how a group of outsiders took on the blue-blood, old-boys club of Wall Street and ended up crashing the world’s largest financial system, a Lamborghini limousine and the glass ceiling.
“Black Mondayis a scathing comic commentary on the excess of the ’80s,” said Showtime president and CEO David Nevins. “Don Cheadle, Andrew Rannells and Regina Hall lead a hilarious cast that takes on blue-blooded Wall Street as the Bad News Bears of Wall Street trading firms.”
Per Wikipedia, the Black Monday crash of 1987 “began in Hong Kong and spread west to Europe, hitting the United States after other markets had already sustained significant declines. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) fell exactly 508 points to 1,738.74 (22.61%)…Possible causes for the decline included program trading, overvaluation, illiquidity and market psychology.”
The stock market is an absolute mystery to me, so I have no idea what any of that means. But it doesn’t sound good.
Black Mondaywas created byDavid CaspeandJordan Cahan, who will serve as showrunners and executive producers, alongside Rogen and Goldberg. In addition to Cheadle, Rannells and Hall,Black Mondaywill featurePaul Scheer,Yassir Lester,Bruce Dern,Melissa Rauch,Horatio Sanz,Julie Hagerty,Vanessa Bell Calloway,Tim RussandJason Michael Snow.
