Netflix certainly isn’t short of ideas. The streamer has plans for an original movie based on the recent Reddit-driven soaring of GameStop stock – joining two more projects about the same subject that are both currently in the works.
Not much is known about the Netflix GameStop movie – it is, after all, based on ongoing events – but Deadline reports that Oscar-winning writer Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker) is in talks to pen the script. The only other talent attached is To All The Boys I Loved actor Noah Centineo, who is set to play a "major role."
And that’s not all. If you’re still catching up, To The Moon and the Netflix movie join a recently-announced, MGM-bought project. The untitled movie is set to be based on Ben Mezrich (author of the book which was adapted into The Social Network) and his plans for a book on the Reddit drama.
The controversy, which featured a widescale snapping up of GameStop stock on Reddit to send its stock exchange prices rocketing, is going to be a compelling story worth telling. More than once, too. The Social Network’s critical and commercial success has proven tempting and, after Wall Street, Reddit has seemingly swayed Hollywood too.
