‘The Antisocial Network’: Hollywood Is Already Making A Movie About The Ongoing GameStop Chaos
By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 1, 2021 7:30 am EST
Deadline reports that MGM was able to acquire the rights to the book proposal The Antisocial Network from bestselling author Ben Mezrich, who has an impressive resume of nonfiction books adapted to the screen, including 21 and The Social Network. So it’s no surprise that Mezrich jumped at the chance to pen a book about the ongoing GameStop pandemonium at Wall Street, even if it’s still happening.
The book proposal will supposedly center on the group of “a ragtag group of amateur investors, gamers, and internet trolls who brought Wall Street to its knees,” per Deadline, which Mezrich and his reps brought to market barely a week after the GameStop frenzy started. From there, Hollywood studios were quick to try to snap up the story, with MGM acquiring the rights by Friday night.
It’s an ongoing saga, and it’s unclear when Mezrich’s story will actually stop. But, the story has caught the public’s attention, with many already making comparisons to Adam McKay’s 2015 biographical comedy-drama The Big Short, including The Daily Show host Trevor Noah, who does a better job explaining all of this than I do.
Margot Robbie wasn’t available to explain this GameStop situation in a bathtub, so this is the best we could do. pic.twitter.com/Mw1dabmIzQ
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) January 28, 2021
It’s easy to imagine McKay being first in line to direct MGM’s adaptation of The Antisocial Network, which will reunite the studio’s Michael DeLuca with Mezrich following the Oscar-winning The Social Network, an adaptation of Mezrich’s The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook, a Tale Of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal which DeLuca produced.
Aaron Ryder of Ryder Picture Company will produce The Antisocial Network. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss will executive produce via their Winklevoss Pictures production banner. The book is expected to go to out to publishers for auction in February.
