Amy Pascal is set to produce a movie about Gamergate that screenwriters Rebecca Angelo and Lauren Schuker Blum will adapt from game designer Zoe Quinn’s memoir “Crash Override: How to Save the Internet From Itself,” an individual familiar with the package has told TheWrap.
Scarlett Johansson is one of several young actresses who have their eye on the role of Quinn, the “Depression Quest” creator who was targeted by a digital mob when a blog post written by her ex-boyfriend went viral, sparking the Gamergate controversy.
Quinn’s memoir, which takes an in-depth look at the often misogynistic gaming culture, will be published next September by Touchstone/Simon & Schuster.