![]() You Know the Drill: If you’ve seen The Social Network, you’ll largely recognize the direction Canadian writer-director Kim Nguyen is pursuing n The Hummingbird Project. ![]() But as the pair run into every conceivable problem - medical issues, nervous investors, a former boss ( Salma Hayek) who sniffs out their plan and wants to beat them to it - the project takes an unexpected toll on their health, their wealth, and their relationships with each other. Their ambitious, reckless plan: to lay a single stretch of fiber-optic cable between the Kansas and New York Stock Exchanges, making their clients able to trade a crucial millisecond faster than the competition. ![]() For Vincent ( Jesse Eisenberg) and Anton Zaleski ( Alexander Skarsgård), two cousins planning the greatest digital stock market gamble of all time, it’s the difference between getting rich quick and going to jail. The Pitch: Sixteen milliseconds - that’s all the time it takes for a hummingbird to flap its wings.
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