AhhHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAaaaaa... a Zoe Quinn movie.

[Zhukov]

(Dear moderators, I have no idea where this belongs. Feel free to move it wherever you see fit.)

So anyway...

http://deadline.com/2015/11/zoe-quinn-crash-override-gamergate-memoir-amy-pascal-1201611420/

Yeah.

Just to be clear, I have no idea how true any of this is. Yes, I know that it's only in the planning stage, if that. Yes, I know that movies studios often buy the rights to stuff just-in-case and then never use them.

I also have no particular opinion on this other than thinking that it is at least six different flavours of hilarious. I'm just posting it here so I can dance among the flames and falling ashes see what you fine people make of it.

Oh, and I'll just end with a quick exert:

... and several actresses are circling, with interest from Scarlett Johansson said to be keenest.

Dear God. My heart. I shall die laughing.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

Oh! We should get Mercedes Carrera to play Zoe! That way we can skip all the bullshit and just get to the porn parody.
It'd actually be very fitting.

 

[Fappy]

This is fucking hilarious! Sounds like it would be a boring movie though.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Eh...sounds about as fun as re-reading old posts about how it wasn't slut-shaming, she was just a slut.

OTOH, guaranteed loads of publicity. Personally I'd be worried about it being the sort of film most likely to get itself a mass shooting during a screening, though.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

ScarJo as Quinn? Talk about overachieving. I have a used tissue next to me which would provide a closer likeness.

This has to be some sort of joke report.

 

[Gethsemani_v1legacy]

I don't know, if you can make movies about Zuckerberg or Jobs, why not Quinn? In the latter case there's at least some kind of conflict in the real story and the film makers won't have to make on up to make the biopic more dramatic.

If this is true I am hoping there's a scene when they have a chat-off over IRC, where Zoe has to out-chat the Leader of GG. That would totally be legit.

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

Well, if it's a movie about the whole GamerGate thing, I think that could have some potential.

Although for some reason I feel like there should be an Anita Sarkeesian movie before a Zoe Quinn movie.

 

[Supernova1138]

Hooray, we get to have a feature length version of the Law and Order: SVU episode. I'm guessing the plot will be Zoe Quinn being captured by the evil neckbearded terrorists chanting Vidya Akbar, and she spends nine months in the Gamers' torture cellar until she breaks out in an epic CGI laden action sequence. Following the escape, Quinn storms the headquarters of the terrorist organization known as Gamergate and executes their leader, a Youtube personality known to the Internet as SemiCracker. The film ends with Quinn standing before the UN giving an impassioned speech about the evils of video games and how they should all be banned (Twine text adventures excluded).

 

[Zontar]

I don't know, if you can make movies about Zuckerberg or Jobs, why not Quinn?

Because Zuckerberg and Jobs made a difference in the tech world by being marketing geniuses whose work has had a large effect on the modern world, while Van Volkenburg's entire claim to fame is half based on a faked harassment message from a website used by depressed people and being one of the people involved in an event which caused a still ongoing (and as a result of this, possibly resurgent) controversy within the media (with more of the entire media bring dragged in by the day due to mainstream networks doubling down since none understand the concept of cutting losses).

There are literally millions of people who deserve a movie like this about their life or an event within their life. Hell, a man who is virtually 100% guaranteed to be slandered by this film by false vilification is on that list. When it comes to women in the industry in question, the number is still thousands. This is like taking a random person in the street and saying "we're making a movie about them", only it's much less likely to be sued.

]Well, if it's a movie about the whole GamerGate thing, I think that could have some potential.

Although for some reason I feel like there should be an Anita Sarkeesian movie before a Zoe Quinn movie.

To be frank, neither of them deserves a movie given how little they've accomplished within the industry (one of them having their entire accomplishment be literally nothing) and I have my doubts it'll be "about" GamerGate since you wouldn't need a big name actress to play Van Volkenburg for a role that wouldn't have more then a few lines of dialogue at best given how irrelevant she is to the whole thing.

 

[Bat Vader]

This sounds dumb. The best way to hurt it is to not got see it. That's what I plan to do. I won't support anyone that makes a movie as stupid as this.

 

[BreakfastMan]

To be frank, neither of them deserves a movie given how little they've accomplished within the industry (one of them having their entire accomplishment be literally nothing) and I have my doubts it'll be "about" GamerGate since you wouldn't need a big name actress to play Van Volkenburg for a role that wouldn't have more then a few lines of dialogue at best given how irrelevant she is to the whole thing.

"Zoe Quinn is irrelevant! That is why I feel like I need to bring up her old name again for no good reason and talk for way too long about how irrelevant she is!"

OT: Eh. It is definitely be an odd thing, but will be interested to see how it turns out. Hopefully a good film comes of it, we can always use more of those.

 

[Zontar]

This sounds dumb. The best way to hurt it is to not got see it. That's what I plan to do. I won't support anyone that makes a movie as stupid as this.

To be honest, I'm scratching my head trying to think about who this appeals to.

It doesn't appeal to older audiences due to the topic it's handling, it doesn't appeal to younger audiences because they really don't tend to watch dramas like this (I'm 20 and when I go see a drama it's rare the next youngest person isn't a full 10 years older then I am), it doesn't appeal to gamers because most either don't care or are actively going to be painted as terrorists by the movie and know this before going in, really I have no idea who the target audience is supposed to be, and it seems like it's trying to have the "Scarlet Johanson" crowd be the only ones who will want to see it, but even then it'll need to be pretty low budget if it wants to brake even on a movie using one actress' star power for something that has no foreign appeal (it is probably the most "only could work in America" movie I've heard about in years).

Who the hell is this movie for? Especially in a time where the dramatic biography sub-genre is flopping at the box office.

 

[Zontar]

"Zoe Quinn is irrelevant! That is why I feel like I need to bring up her old name again for no good reason and talk for way too long about how irrelevant she is!"

Actually I bring up her old name because it ticks her and others from a very specific crowd off to be reminded of the fact that her background isn't nearly as... let's call it "humble"... as her changed name would imply it is. Its use doesn't change the fact my statement of her being irrelevant to GamerGate holds true.

 

[Gethsemani_v1legacy]

Because Zuckerberg and Jobs made a difference in the tech world by being marketing geniuses whose work has had a large effect on the modern world

I know what they did, that was not my point. My point was a dramaturgical one as both movies are essentially idol biopics that makes up some big drama because the movie would be pretty fucking boring if it was Zuckerberg sitting in his dorm room making a website for most of it. While their lives and works might be interesting, they are not well-suited for non-documentary movies because of the lack of central conflict.

Quinn, on the other hand, has, since August last year, had what one might call an "interesting" life, with persistent harassment, becoming a super-celebrity in Gaming culture by virtue of how much some cliques of gamers hates her and has become a voice against online harassment, to the degree that she appeared before the UN to speak about it. Whatever or not you like Quinn, this is, dramaturgically speaking, the kind of story that would fit into a suspenseful drama/thriller.

 

[Zontar]

Quinn, on the other hand, has, since August last year, had what one might call an "interesting" life, with persistent harassment, becoming a super-celebrity in Gaming culture by virtue of how much some cliques of gamers hates her and has become a voice against online harassment, to the degree that she appeared before the UN to speak about it. Whatever or not you like Quinn, this is, dramaturgically speaking, the kind of story that would fit into a suspenseful drama/thriller.

That would make a good work of fiction, I'll admit, the problem is it will be presented as factual, and you just know that given the titanic gap between how Quinn pretends things went down and how they have objectively been proven to have gone down, you just know there's going to be at least one lawsuit that's of the "will guarantee it's never made" nature, possibly more depending upon how it touches upon websites and other figures of the controversy.

And honestly, Eron's story is effectively the same one with the perspective being different and the risk of lawsuits being non-existent. I'd sooner watch his movie then this one just on the basis that there's a more interesting conflict on top of the fact it isn't a work of fiction.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

I'm wondering how they got the rights to this, I thought she was adamant about leaving the past in the past?

 

[Bat Vader]

This sounds dumb. The best way to hurt it is to not got see it. That's what I plan to do. I won't support anyone that makes a movie as stupid as this.

To be honest, I'm scratching my head trying to think about who this appeals to.

It doesn't appeal to older audiences due to the topic it's handling, it doesn't appeal to younger audiences because they really don't tend to watch dramas like this (I'm 20 and when I go see a drama it's rare the next youngest person isn't a full 10 years older then I am), it doesn't appeal to gamers because most either don't care or are actively going to be painted as terrorists by the movie and know this before going in, really I have no idea who the target audience is supposed to be, and it seems like it's trying to have the "Scarlet Johanson" crowd be the only ones who will want to see it, but even then it'll need to be pretty low budget if it wants to brake even on a movie using one actress' star power for something that has no foreign appeal (it is probably the most "only could work in America" movie I've heard about in years).

Who the hell is this movie for? Especially in a time where the dramatic biography sub-genre is flopping at the box office.

My best guess are that it's for Quinn and Sarkessian fans. Personally I would rather see a movie about Clayton Kershaw's or Justin Verlnader's rise to MLB.

 

[IceForce]

Given how much butthurt one stupid SVU episode garnered, I can't wait to see this come to fruition.

Ethics!

I know, right? Anti-gamergate were so pissed that they were portrayed as such.

Wait, anti-gamergate was pissed? You sure about that? Because I don't remember 'anti'-gamergate starting a -- and I quote -- "ongoing battle" about it.

 

[Zontar]

My best guess are that it's for Quinn and Sarkessian fans. Personally I would rather see a movie about Clayton Kershaw's or Justin Verlnader's rise to MLB.

I don't know, I have my doubts those fans are enough to raise "A list Actress" type of income given the income both manage through E-begging.

But I do agree with you about the movies you'd rather see, that idea sounds more appealing to me and, given it's rise, more appealing to a general audience. Maybe you should pitch it to a studio?

 

[runic knight]

Given how much butthurt one stupid SVU episode garnered, I can't wait to see this come to fruition.

Ethics!

I know, right? Anti-gamergate were so pissed that they were portrayed as such.

Wait, anti-gamergate was pissed? You sure about that? Because I don't remember 'anti'-gamergate starting a -- and I quote -- "ongoing battle" about it.

Yeah, pretty sure it was anti-gamergate that was pissed and complaining about how it made them look like a joke.

That link was a protest of an actual news reporting on gamergate, not a fictional episode on the topic. Even says it first thing in the post that it is about slanted coverage of the topic, not a SVU episode. I suppose they might have used the episode as basis for the story, but no, the protest is about the news reporting falsehoods and misrepresentations, you know, ethics in journalism stuff.

Ah yeah, first actual paragraph. Blue is relevant.

Way back on February 25, 2015, Rachel Giese interviewed Brianna Wu on Q (the CBC Radio One show formerly hosted by Jian Ghomeshi) and used an audio clip from the infamous Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode from earlier this year - you know, the one where gamers were portrayed as kidnappers, terrorists, and rapists - to frame a debate about the harassment of women in the video game industry and GamerGate.

You know, I get the distinct impression you didn't read that link before grabbing it and tossing it out there...