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(Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) News travels fast in Hollywood. Less than a week after the meme stock craze that gave GameStop and other struggling firms a financial boost, MGM Studios reportedly acquired the rights to a book proposal chronicling the Wall Street hubbub. Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions and Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Market for Millions—will pen The Antisocial Network, about a team of Redditors who banded together to bring Wall Street to its knees.

Posted on Monday, February 1st, 2021 by Hoai-Tran Bui Only Hollywood could match Wall Street for making billion-dollar projects out of hypotheticals. And the two of them collide in  The Antisocial Network, a book proposal about the ongoing MGM has landed the rights to following a heated bidding war. 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 jump...

Author Ben Mezrich is turning the GameStop saga into a book, movie By Diti Kohli Globe Correspondent,Updated February 1, 2021, 12:00 p.m. Email to a Friend Hollywood knows America can’t get enough of the Wall Street-GameStop chaos. That’s why MGM has already acquired the rights to adapt a proposal for “The Antisocial Network,” an unreleased book by Boston author Ben Mezrich that will chronicle this week’s stock market saga, according to Deadline. The story is still playing out in real time, and the book proposal hasn’t been picked by a publisher yet. But an aucti...

Dueling GameStop Movies Are Already in the Works at MGM and Netflix Do you still need an easy explanation of the big stonk story? Look for the movie version soon by way of the author of 'The Social Network' OR by the writer of 'Zero Dark Thirty.' Mike Mozart via Wikimedia Commons The biggest story of last week is already primed to be a big movie in the near future. According to Deadline, MGM is developing a movie about the GameStop short squeeze, which shook Wall Street, Washington, and the American zeitgeist in late January due to Reddit users’ influence on the stock market.