Director Craig Gillespie is adapting another wild wild story for the big-screen after re-telling the crazy Pamela Anderson-Tommy Lee sex-tape story for Hulu’s Pam & Tommy. According to sources he is attached to direct feature adaptation of New York Times bestselling author Ben Mezrich’s “The Antisocial Network” for MGM.
The book follows one of the biggest news-breaking stories of 2021, when a group of amateur investors, Internet trolls and gamers brought Wall Street to its knees as they revived the video game retailer GameStop and made it the first so-called meme stock. MGM landed the rights to Mezrich’s book in January 2021 and tapped Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo to adapt.
The project brings MGM back together with Mezrich, author of “The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal”, which was later adapted into the David Fincher directorial and Oscar-winner “The Social Network”. The production for the film is slated to begin late summer or early fall.
Gillespie has found his niche in spinning crazy, infamous real-life stories and giving them proper cinematic treatment. He began with “I, Tonya”, furthered with ” Pam & Tommy” and also established a foothold with the recent Disney epic “Cruella” starring Emma Stone as the infamous Disney Villain Cruella de Vil. The studio was so impressed with the box-office results of Cruella that they tapped Gillespie and Stone for a sequel.
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