BlackBerry movie trailer: The rise and fall of the worlds 1st smartphone [Video]

“Remember that phone that everyone owned before an iPhone? This is how they got started and how they got destroyed.”

That’s how director Matt Johnson describes his movie BlackBerry, co-written with producer Matthew Miller. The pair of Torontonians are telling the uniquely Canadian story of the world’s first smartphone, the BlackBerry device, created by Waterloo, Ont.-based Research in Motion (RIM).

In its heyday, the BlackBerry was everywhere — the undisputed king of cellphones, especially among businesspeople. But a handful of years later, the company was almost wiped out completely.

“Recounting the Canadian company’s humble yet chaotic rise to market dominance, BlackBerry is a darkly comedic telling of the tragic tale of a Canadian company that revolutionized the way we communicate, before swiftly plummeting into obsolescence,” according to production company Elevation Pictures.

Canadian actor Jay Baruchel dons silver hair to play Mike Lazaridis, the brain behind the BlackBerry, alongside Johnson, who plays his business partner and …