Who Will Play WallStreet Bets In The MGM Film That Is Based On A Book That Isn't Written Yet About Current Events That Are Still Going On?

[DrForester]

MGM Lands Rights To Ben Mezrich’s Book Proposal ‘The Antisocial Network’; Would Chronicle Recent Wall Street-GameStop Chaos

MGM has acquired the book proposal The Antisocial Network from New York Times best-selling author Ben Mezrich, which tells one of the biggest news stories of the year, about a ragtag group of amateur investors, gamers, and internet trolls who brought Wall Street to its knees.

deadline.com

Following one of the craziest weeks in Wall Street history, Hollywood already has its sights set on the wild story with a familiar face looking to tell it. Sources tell Deadline that following a competitive situation, MGM has acquired the book proposal The Antisocial Network from New York Times best-selling author Ben Mezrich, which tells one of the biggest news stories of the year, about a ragtag group of amateur investors, gamers, and internet trolls who brought Wall Street to its knees. Even though the story is barely a week old, insiders say Mezrich and his reps took the proposal on the market at the end of the week and by Friday night MGM had moved fast to acquire the rights.

The project brings MGM's Michael DeLuca back together with Mezrich, author of The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook, a Tale Of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal, which was adapted into the Academy Award-winning The Social Network that DeLuca produced.

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[Smokeymicpot]

Deep Fucking Value is will be some badass actor.

 

[pollo]

Luke Wilson as dfv

 

[Corgi]

Probably alone on this, but Rami Malek would be a great as a main or side character.

 

[AMAGON]

Deep Fucking Value is will be some badass actor.

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Idris Elba

 

[Lord Fanny]

Will Smith

 

[Deleted member 39374]

Adam driver as DFV please

 

[fontguy]

Henry Zebrowski.

 

[BioDigital Jazzman]

Wait so it's kinda messed up that a person not even in it can write about it and sell the book

 

[Deleted member 17388]

Jack Dylan Grazer as a Redditor who follows Roaring Kitty and bet his enter college funds to help bring down billionaires, but soon learns friendships are more valuable

 

[SteveWinwood]

timothee chalamet will be dfv

 

[WascallyWabbit]

You know if there's a schlubby character who lives in his basement trading all day, they'll drag Jonah hill out to play him

 

[Wrexis]

The name alone kinda shows how people are going to be depicted in this movie.

 

[Joshua]

Cousin Greg from Succession needs to be in it. I bet he would look great with a red headband and wristbands.

 

[stumblebee]

Honestly if you were going to make a narrative out of this, you'd probably have like two or three main characters. Deep Fucking Value, a hedgefund dude who lost a bunch, and a regular user who's going to get fucked at the end of this whole thing.

 

[hodayathink]

There are worse Hollywood bets to make than "The writer of the book that was turned into The Social Network" writing about the events of the last week.

 

[Deleted member 21709]

Cousin Greg from Succession needs to be in it. I bet he would look great with a red headband and wristbands.

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Good call.

Honestly if you were going to make a narrative out of this, you'd probably have like two or three main characters. Deep Fucking Value, a hedgefund dude who lost a bunch, and a regular user who's going to get fucked at the end of this whole thing.

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And someone who's parents got FUCKED in the financial crisis of 2008 and manages to prevail with big gains.

 

[Deleted member 17388]

a hedgefund dude who lost a bunch

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Hugo Weaving as the billionaire who is shown to have a meltdown on a YouTube stream with his earnings steadily decreasing in another screen real time.

 

[ToddBonzalez]

Deep Fucking Value is will be some badass actor.

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Henry Cavill or Chris Hemsworth.

 

[a Master Ninja]

Deep Fucking Value is will be some badass actor.

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Will they be able to find an actor with diamond hands?

 

[guiloahhhhh]

Probably alone on this, but Rami Malek would be a great as a main or side character.

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Godamnit you fucking stole this from me.

Have him looking at a screen talking to someone WE DON'T HAVE TO SELL. WE'RE MORE POWERFUL THAN THEY ARE IF WE HOLD THE LINE

 

[HockeyBird]

Deep Fucking Value is will be some badass actor.

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He'll be played by Michael Cera because Hollywood will really want to overly emphasis how internet nerds took on Wall Street.

 

[brochiller]

Too bad Andrew Cuomo isn't on WSB or we'd at least have the book already.

 

[Deleted member 2802]

I don't know how they would do it.
Scenes of people posting on reddit while doing voiceover of their posts?

 

[Stooge]

I have no idea how to film this. Good luck.

 

[Arc]

Not surprised by this at all. I was guessing Michael Lewis would be on it but Mezrich makes sense too. Maybe Sorkin will adapt for the screenplay.

 

[SquirrelSr]

Are they going to flip around a USB drive in this one as well?

 

[Bradford]

me as every member of the cast and it's filmed in my backyard
and before you ask no this definitely isn't a money laundering scheme. What are you, the feds? Stop asking questions.

 

[ryseing]

Not surprised by this at all. I was guessing Michael Lewis would be on it but Mezrich makes sense too. Maybe Sorkin will adapt for the screenplay.

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I guarantee Lewis and McKay are talking right now to get a book/movie package done. We're gonna end up with three or four of these competing to make it to the screen first.

 

[stuckpixel]

Joe Keery from Stranger Things will play Roaring Kitty. And the script will have Melvin Capital hiring a hit man to take Kitty out, but at the end Kitty uses a stingray missile to blow up Gabriel Plotkin's helicopter while yelling, "Option this, Motherfucker!"