Scarlett Johansson May Play Zoe Quinn in Gamergate Movie CONTROL ALT DELETE

Here's a prospect that will probably make people in the most vile corners of Gamergate extremely sexually confused: Scarlett Johansson, one of the world's most gorgeous women, is reportedly interested in playing video game developer Zoe Quinn, the focus of so much of the movement's hate, in a movie based on Quinn's upcoming book.

If you somehow missed the Gamergate controversy last year, consider yourself thankful: while its members supposedly wanted to address "ethics in video games journalism," it gained a reputation as an excuse for a vocal portion of them to lob death and rape threats at various women in the video game industry, driving many (including Quinn) from their homes and starting a larger cultural conversation about the serious nature of online harassment. From Deadline:

The movie deal was based on a proposal titled Control Alt Delete, and tells the story of how Quinn, creator of the hip interactive game Depression Quest, was targeted by a digital mob bent on upending her life when a blog post by her ex-boyfriend went viral. It sparked the widely-discussed Gamergate controversy and took a surprising turn when instead of running, she decided to fight back. It is a very inside look at gaming and nerd culture and what happens when one gets caught in the gears of that machine.

Plenty of digital ink has been spilled about Gamergate already, so I won't add more to the pile, but if you're truly unfamiliar with everything about it, this (really long) article has a great breakdown of everything you should know about it.

I'm guessing the fact that Quinn wrote a book about her experience and that ScarJo is interested in playing her won't be greeted favorably by the lagging remnants of Gamergate, and I imagine Johansson feels some level of kinship with Quinn because she probably experienced her own kind of online hell as a part of the whole celebrity nude hacking scandal not too long ago. Hopefully the eventual film will, first and foremost, be a good movie, but it certainly wouldn't hurt to deliver all of the conversations the controversy raised to a much larger audience, too.