BlackBerry Interview: Jay Baruchel & Glenn Howerton on This Great, Untold Story

It’s 1997, you’re on the cusp of the online generations to come, and society is about to make big moves from bulky desktops to portable devices that hold everything you need in the palm of your hand. Like this year’s Tetris and Air, IFC’s BlackBerry stars Jay Baruchel (This Is the End) and Glenn Howerton (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) as the founder and CEO of the BlackBerry, and tells the story of the smartphone that dominated the market before iPhones. In an interview with Collider’s Steve Weintraub, Baruchel and Howerton discuss the impact these phones had on society, and how they knew this biopic was going to be something special. BlackBerry, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and South by Southwest this year, stars Cary Elwes, Rich Sommer, and co-writer and director, Matt Johnson, alongside Baruchel and Howerton. It not only tells the triumphant underdog story of how this Canadian company clawed their way to the top, but the subsequent downfall as innovation left the so