Director Craig Gillespie's latest film Dumb Money chronicles the GameStop stock short squeeze that happened just two years ago. What's more, the film is based on a book, The Antisocial Network, that came out only a few months after the short squeeze occurred.

These sorts of tight turnarounds are becoming more and more common in Hollywood — but where did this race to adapt the stories making headlines come from in the first place?

Vulture pop culture and film critic Nate Jones joins host Elamin Abdelmahmoud to talk about Dumb Money and what it says about Hollywood's thirst for IP.