An epic rise and fall for a once-ubiquitous cellular gadget is chronicled within the first trailer for IFC Movies’ BlackBerry.

The very fact-based function from director Matt Johnson stars Jay Baruchel as Mike Lazaridis, co-founder of BlackBerry maker Analysis in Movement, and Glenn Howerton as the corporate’s former co-CEO Jim Balsillie. The trailer reveals instant rigidity between the pair, with Lazaridis being warned earlier than agreeing to work with Balsillie that he’s a shark.

The footage contains Howerton telling Baruchel, “I understand how to promote it, and I do know who we are able to promote it to, however I need 50 % of the corporate, and I’ve bought to be CEO.” Surprisingly, Baruchel’s character is nice with this association.

Later, Howerton’s Balsillie says, “We’re in a race to get this factor to market, and we’re a yr behind — I would like a prototype.”

One other pivotal scene reveals Lazaridis, performed by Baruchel, providing help to a first-time consumer of the gadget: “Strive typing along with your thumbs.”

The movie is tailored from Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff’s e book, Shedding the Sign: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry.

Johnson directed BlackBerry from a script he co-wrote with Matthew Miller. The movie premiered final month on the Berlin Movie Pageant and hits theaters Might 12.

The film is produced by Fraser Ash, Niv Fichman, Kevin Krikst and Matthew Miller. Govt producers are Nate Bolotin, Maxime Cottray, Adrian Love, Jay McCarrol, Noah Segal, Nick Spicer, Aram Tertzakian and Robert Upchurch.

In his evaluation, The truestarz’s chief movie critic David Rooney referred to as BlackBerry “uneven however fairly entertaining.”