LSE’s summer stock-buster is arriving soon
IF YOU loved Oscar-winning space-epic Gravity and you’re looking for your next dose of the galaxy, we might have just the thing. The London Stock Exchange has enlisted the help of Framestore, the Soho-based visual effects company that worked on Gravity, to update its market opening sequence.
The current ceremony is already pretty high-tech – forget an opening bell – it’s all LED globes and big screens, but all that is about to get jazzed up, or Gravity-fied as we’re currently saying. The new countdown sequence will involve a “big bang and a galaxy, with stocks whizzing about like planets.”
LSE chief executive Alexander Justham, or JJ to most, let it slip yesterday morning at the 8am open, attended by the team and winners from last Thursday’s PwC PLC Awards. “The new system should be in place by the summer,” he told The Capitalist. “It’s going to be really exciting.”
And will LSE be inviting George Clooney down to launch the new visuals? “We’ve definitely been joking about trying to get George Clooney and Sandra Bullock to come in,” he laughed.