This was a gamble …
Hollywood has already set its sights on last week’s GameStop trading frenzy.
MGM recently scored the rights to a book proposal on the WallStreetBets Reddit forum tentatively titled “The Antisocial Network,” Deadline reported Sunday.
The planned tome, by Ben Mezrich, will explore how the group of rogue day traders shook Wall Street by increasing shares in GameStop and other companies in spite of large hedge funds.
While the saga is still very recent, Deadline reported that Mezrich had marketed the proposal late last week, and MGM quickly took it away after a competitive bidding war.
Mezrich is the author of “The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook, a Tale Of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal”, which was adapted in 2010 as Oscar winner “The Social Network”.