The GameStop content race has begun, even as the Reddit-fueled market uprising against billionaire hedge funds continues to play out in real time.
Netflix is reportedly in talks to write a social media adaptation of the David v Goliath saga, in which a small army of online investors rocked Wall Street by the prices of stocks in the ailing video game chain and shorted others. businesses, with Mark Boal (Zero Dark Thirty, The Hurt Locker) ready to write and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before’s Noah Centineo attached to the star.
The untitled project would be the second adaptation of the only two-week-old GameStop saga already in development, after MGM acquired rights in a bidding war to the book proposal The Antisocial Network from Ben Mezrich, author of The Accidental Billionaires last week. , which served as source material for The Social Network. That adaptation will be produced by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, both played by Armie Hammer in the David Fincher drama. An auction for the book itself starts this month.
According to Deadline, which broke the news, sources claim the Netflix project would take advantage of the recent market frenzy, in which a motley group of Reddit users and amateur investors targeted short-selling bets from billionaire hedge funds, sending GameStop shares at 135% in a one day, to explore the wider cultural shifts, for good and evil, as social media has leveled the playing field and overruled former gatekeepers.
The film will reportedly cover the GameStop saga, the proliferation of social media disinformation and deliberately spread disinformation about electoral fraud that sparked the pro-Trump attack on the US Capitol earlier this month.
This is not the first time that Boal has incorporated real-time developments in a fast-paced scenario; Following the news that US Navy Seals had killed Osama bin Laden in a 2011 raid on Pakistan, Boal and his director, Kathryn Bigelow, quickly adapted a long-term project on the hunt for Al-Qaeda leader in Zero Dark Thirty, a thriller about controversial American intelligence techniques and the successful raid.