The 'BlackBerry' trailer looks funnier than you'd expect<p>When we learned that <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="
https://www.engadget.com/blackberry-movie-104051122.html">a BlackBerry movie was in the works [/url]last year, we had no idea it would be something close to a comedy. But judging from the the trailer released today, it's aiming to be a far lighter story than other recent films about tech, like
The Social Network and <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="
https://www.engadget.com/2015-10-23-steve-jobs-film-accuracy.html">
Steve Jobs[/url]. The
BlackBerry movie stars Jay Baruchel (
How to Train Your Dragon, Goon) and
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's Glenn Howerton as Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, the former co-CEOs of the Canadian firm Research in Motion. They're not exactly household names, but they both played a huge role in the history of mobile communications. Without the BlackBerry's success, the iPhone may have never happened.</p><div id="9698da6155f74e9ab21cdacc44e536a5"><iframe src="
https://www.youtube.com/embed/cXL_HDzBQsM?rel=0" style="top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;border:0;" allowfullscreen="" scrolling="no"></iframe></div><p>Judging from the trailer, the film will cover everything from the origins of BlackBerry as a crazy idea between a few college students (director Matt Johnson also co-stars as RIM co-founder Douglas Fregin), to its ignominious end as it failed to keep up with the iPhone and Android smartphones. It's a classic innovator's dilemma tale: RIM revolutionized the way we communicated by tapping into early cellular networks, but it failed to see the potential of touchscreen smartphones that didn't need physical keyboards.</p><span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><p>
BlackBerry is based on the 2015 book
Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry, which was written by
Globe and Mail reporters Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff. </p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at
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The 'BlackBerry' trailer looks funnier than you'd expect
