Book and movie deals secured for Zoe Quinn’s Gamergate memoir

Depression Quest developer Zoe Quinn has sold the movie rights to her upcoming memoir Crash Override: How To Save The Internet From Itself.

Deadline reports that the rights have been acquired by the producer of the Ghostbusters reboot and former Sony Pictures co-chairperson Amy Pascal. The site adds that several actresses are interested in playing Quinn, with Scarlett Jonansson apparently “keenest”.

The film, produced by Pascal Productions, will be released by Touchstone/Simon & Schuster in September 2016. Several studios and TV outlets bid for the rights.

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