Zoe Quinn, some might remember, was basically ground zero for the internet hate mob GamerGate about a year ago. It was a rambling blog post from Quinn's ex-boyfriend about her alleged indiscretions that set off the entire (still ongoing) incident. She wrote a memoir about it, and now the film rights have gone to Pascal Productions, a division of Sony named for Amy Pascal, its founder.
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GamerGate as you may remember, started a little more than a year ago when an ex-boyfriend of independent game developer Zoe Quinn, posted an overlong, rambling hitpiece about her and her alleged relationship with a games journalist and how that may have positively affected reviews of her game, Depression Quest, an interactive look at the day-to-day life of someone living and coping with depression.
That post was ground zero for the GamerGate controversy which saw a sustained (and still ongoing) campaign of harassment directed at her and other women and allies within the industry. The harassment, and accompanying threats of varying levels of severity, eventually drove several women from their own homes.
Now, the rights to Zoe Quinn's memoir Crash Override: How to Save the Internet from Itself, have been won in a bid by Amy Pascal. The project is still in early stages and is mostly being funded internally by Pascal and her company, Pascal Productions, a division of Sony.
Several actresses have been discussed as potentially being involved in this project, including Scarlett Johannson and Anne Hathaway.
Here's Quinn describing her proposal and the conflict within the project:
Gaming and internet message boards used to be niche interests, mostly for young men. In the past few years, however, they’ve gone mainstream. Millions of people — including women and other marginalized people — have taken an interest in the platforms, image boards, and discussion forums that once belonged by default to a much smaller population. Most gamers give zero fu*ks about this. Like the rest of us, they’re just here to play games. But a vocal minority are clinging onto the brand of Cheetos-and-Mountain-Dew exclusionary identity ‘hardcore gamer,’ muttering ‘fu*kin casuals’ under their breath.
Via:
Deadline