Scarlett Johannson Might Star In Feature Film About Zoe Quinn
According to Deadline: Hollywood, Scarlett Johannson, one of the most glamorous women in the world, is pursuing the role of gamer and nerd-culture enthusiast Zoe Quinn. (That’s her up there.) A motion picture is in development about Zoe’s life, based on a book which……um, actually we can’t tell you the contents of the book because it hasn’t been written yet. The movie was sold to Pascal Pictures based on an outline and proposal — the book itself will not be out until the fall of 2016.
What could possibly convince Hollywood, an institution full of the wisest people on Earth, to take such a chance and blow such cash immediately on something so unproven? In all likelihood, this is the direct result of #Gamergate, a grassroots movement with the singular goal of getting Zoe Quinn her own feature film.
You might be wondering who Zoe is and how this movement helped her get so far. According to Raymond F. Norkstein, one of GamerGate’s 356,981 founders and spokespeople, Zoe is “a horrific criminal mastermind who seduced every single journalist on the Web to earn millions of dollars from a nonprofit text adventure game and has goals of world domination through castration of every male on the planet,” though we’re sure he was being sarcastic. GamerGaters are such fans of Zoe that she hasn’t been able to return to her own house for over a year and every member of her own family faces constant harrassment. She’s that popular!
However this movie turns out, one thing is certain: it’s the actions of #GamerGate that propelled Zoe into the kind of fame that got her a Law and Order episode based on her experiences, and now, a major motion picture starring ScarJo as a gawky gamer girl. Zoe would definitely not be in this position without the efforts of GamerGate. Pat yourselves on the back, you guys!