For some time, BlackBerry telephones had been the telephones to have, used company bigwigs and heads of state to reply emails and do duties they could not usually do on different cell telephones. Those days are lengthy gone. Now, movie studios need relive the rise and fall of the corporate from the time it was nonetheless referred to as Research in Motion till it misplaced its struggle in opposition to Google and Apple in a brand new film. According to Variety, the upcoming movie that is merely entitled BlackBerry is directed by Operation Avalanche director Matt Johnson and has lately wrapped manufacturing. 

It stars Jay Baruchel (This Is The End) and Glenn Howerton (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia), Variety says. And although it isn’t confirmed, they’re possible taking part in the corporate’s founders and co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie. The screenplay is predicated on the e-book Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry by The Globe and Mail reporters Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff. Since the e-book was revealed in 2015, the film possible will not embody all of the failed makes an attempt to revive the model that occurred within the years thereafter. 

In 2019, TCL manufactured new BlackBerry telephones till the corporate determined to not renew its contract and stopped promoting the gadgets merely a yr later. Security startup OnwardMobility then introduced that it was planning to launch a 5G BlackBerry smartphone with a bodily keyboard in 2021 for North America and Europe. In the top, nevertheless, these plans by no means got here to fruition. OnwardMobility reportedly misplaced its license to make use of the BlackBerry title and finally shut down the corporate in February this yr.