LOS ANGELES – The ending hasn’t been written yet, but Hollywood is moving quickly to bring the story of the GameStop investment saga to the screen.
Individual projects at Netflix Inc. NFLX,
and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. already under development around last week on Wall Street, in which a group aiming to invest on the Reddit message board came together to raise the share prices of struggling companies such as GameStop Corp. GME,
and AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. AMC,
in the process of crumbling the hedge funds that bet against them.
Netflix is in talks with screenwriter Mark Boal, who dramatized real-life events such as Osama bin Laden’s attack in “Zero Dark Thirty,” for a film that would feature a 24-year-old disappointing star. streaming company, Noah Centineo, according to someone familiar with the case.
At MGM, executives plan to develop a manuscript by Ben Mezrich about the saw entitled “The Anti-Social Network.” The studio moved so fast that it acquired the rights to Mr. Mezrich’s book recommendation, which is being bought to publishers for purchase this month, according to someone familiar with the deal.
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