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Amy Pascal wins Zoe Quinn's Gamergate memoir 'Crash Override'

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Press Trust of India Los Angeles
Last Updated : Nov 07 2015 | 1:22 PM IST
Film producer Amy Pascal has won a bidding war for the rights to Zoe Quinn's acclaimed memoir "Crash Override: How to Save the Internet from Itself".
Quinn is the independent video game developer who was targeted online when a blog post by her ex-boyfriend went viral, sparking the widely-discussed Gamergate controversy, said The Hollywood Reporter.
Quinn fought back, thus starting a conversation about the violent sexism in the gaming industry.
57-year-old Pascal knows a thing or two about internet bullies, having been one of the targets in a cyber attack on Sony Studios when she was the sitting co-chairperson.
She will finance and produce the film under her Pascal Pictures banner, which is based at Sony Entertainment, with Entertainment 360.
Rebecca Angelo and Lauren Schuker Blum,are set to adapt to book for the screen.
The memoir sold to Touchstone/Simon and Schuster,will be released on September 15, 2016.

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First Published: Nov 07 2015 | 1:22 PM IST

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