So, Turns Out Netflix Is Already Making a GameStop Movie Starring Noah Centineo

Well, that was quick.

If you were on social media at all last week, your feed was probably inundated with news about GameStop stocks, Reddit and Wall Street.

In fact, if you still have no idea what's going on, we've broken it down for you here to save you some mental exhaustion.

Basically, a bunch of Redditors from the subreddit r/WallStreetBets wanted to troll Wall Street's institutional investors—also known as hedge funds—who have consistently been betting that GameStop stocks will lose value (a process known as 'shorting'). 

So, a bunch of these users got together and bought thousands of US dollars' worth of their GameStop stocks. From there, they encouraged other Redditors to quickly buy and sell as the price rose, causing GameStop's stock value to surge, and leaving big short seller investors scrambling to buy and weep as they lost millions of dollars.

It really does sound like the plot of an Oscar-winning drama, doesn't it?

Well, Netflix obviously thinks so too, because the streaming service is already in talks to make a movie about it.

As reported by Deadline, Netflix is planning to create an untitled film that Mark Boal is in negotiations to write. He's also the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty.

Scott Galloway, the activist/journalist and NYU professor is in talks to consult on the script.

To All the Boys I've Loved Before heart-throb Noah Centineo is also attached to play a major role (we're not surprised, tbh).

noah centineo is gonna be the gamestop movie guy!?!?!?

— mariepet (@mpmangosing) February 1, 2021

Find someone who loves you the way @netflix loves @noahcent !!😗#noahcentineo #GameStop #Netflix

— Ishani Garkoti (@IshaniG_) February 1, 2021

While Netflix hasn't specifically confirmed much about the project, Deadline's sources said the aim of the flick is "to shine a light on the phenomenon of how social media has leveled the playing field and allowed the masses to challenge status quo gatekeepers, for good and bad."

Of course, Netflix's movie isn't the only project about GameStop in the works. Apparently MGM also plans to make one, and it's set on a book that hasn't even been written yet. 

The author of the novel is Ben Mezrich, who also wrote The Accidental Billionaires, which was the basis for David Fincher's 2010 movie The Social Network (the best movie of all time, don't @ me). Ironically, Mezrich is set to call his new book The Antisocial Network.

So, if you've read all the explainer articles you can and you still don't understand this GameStop stuff, at least you'll have a couple of movies to help you out.

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