It was definitely a bet …
Hollywood already has its sights set on GameStop trading enthusiasm.
MGM recently acquired the rights to a book proposal on the WallStreetBets Reddit forum tentatively titled “The Antisocial Network”, Deadline reported Sunday.
The planned tome, by Ben Mezrich, will investigate how the group of rogue day traders shook Wall Street by strengthening shares in GameStop GME,
and other companies in spite of large hedge funds.
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While the saga is still very recent, Deadline reported that Mezrich took the proposal to market by the end of last week, and MGM quickly picked it up after a competitive bidding war.
Mezrich is the author of “The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook, A Tale Of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal”, which was adapted into the 2010 Oscar-winning “The Social Network”.