Craig Gillespie Set To Direct a GameStop Stock Film For MGM Titled THE ANTISOCIAL NETWORK
Craig Gillespie (I, Tanya, Cruella, Pam & Tommy) has been hired by MGM to helm a film that tells the wild true story of GameStop’s stock madness. The film will be an adaptation of the New York Times bestselling book, The Antisocial Network, written by Ben Mezrich.
The book tells the story about “a ragtag group of amateur investors, gamers and Internet trolls who brought Wall Street to its knees by reviving the challenged brick-and-mortar video game retailer GameStop, making it the first so-called meme stock.”
MGM picked up the rights to Mezrich’s book back in January 2021, only a week after the true-life story began taking shape on Wall Street. Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo were hired at the time to write the script. Both of them previously worked together on Orange is the New Black and Wolfman.
Michael De Luca is producing the film and he previously worked on the film adaptation of Mezrich’s previous novel, The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal, which was adapted into the movie The Social Network.
The film is currently slated to begin production late this summer or early fall and this seems like it will be a great project for Gillespie to be a part of. He’s good at telling these kinds of crazy stories.
Source: Deadline