Film of ‘The Antisocial Network’ in the Works | Kirkus Reviews

Craig Gillespie is directing a film adaptation of Ben Mezrich’s The Antisocial Network, and four prominent actors have signed on to the project, Deadline reports.

Pete Davidson (Saturday Night Live), Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood), Seth Rogen (Knocked Up), and Sebastian Stan (the Captain America films) will star in Dumb Money, which will be helmed by I, Tonya and Cruella director.

Mezrich’s book, published last year by Grand Central, is a nonfiction account of the GameStop short squeeze, which was brought about by a group of Reddit users and shook Wall Street in early 2021. A critic for Kirkus called the book “a touch long and wobbly but just the thing for alt-finance geeks with background in trading language and practice.”

The screenplay for the film is written by Rebecca Angelo and Lauren Schuker Blum, both previously writers for Orange Is the New Black. They’re also among the project’s executive producers, along with Mezrich, and Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss.

Mezrich confirmed news of the film on Instagram, writing, “So excited to announce that our GameStop movie, based on my book The Antisocial Network, begins shooting next month with this amazing cast! Seth [Rogen], Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Sebastian Stan—can you guess who is playing whom????”

Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.