He’s also developing a new feature film adaptation of Battlestar Galactica, but it’s possible this Gawker movie could be his next project. Due to disappointing box office, however, that now seems unlikely.

He most recently helmed the Jennifer Lawrence-fronted thriller Red Sparrow, for which he hoped to make sequels. Lawrence is a versatile filmmaker whose resume ranges from I Am Legend to Water for Elephants, and it’ll be interesting to see him stretch his dramatic chops. Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue. I’m thrilled to come aboard and to work with this team. In Holidays masterful telling of this nearly unbelievable conspiracy, informed by. It’s an important and meaningful story, and one I’m excited to tell. “When I read Ryan’s extraordinary book I was totally taken with this story, such an exquisitely contemporary tale, and I immediately had a vision for it as a film. Although it’ll be interesting to see what kind of actor could potentially play someone as iconic as Hulk Hogan.īlackrock Productions is producing the film, and Lawrence had this to say about the project in a statement: When it is, they will have to strike the appropriate balance between competing constitutional issues.The trial set a huge precedent involving privacy and the media, and it’s certainly great material for a dramatic film. This difficult constitutional issue has yet to be tested in the Supreme Court. The specific First Amendment issues presented in the Hulk Hogan case seem destined to continually resurface in different contexts, as many states enact anti-revenge porn statutes or criminalize the publication of sex tapes without the consent of one of the participants. The result was a verdict in the amount of $115 million dollars, effectively putting Gawker out of business. Indeed, Justice Louis Brandeis, a staunch defender of the First Amendment, made his name as a young lawyer by writing an influential law review article about the need to protect the privacy of individuals against the excesses of an exploitive press. The framers of the First Amendment certainly did not have in mind protecting the publication of a sex tape made without the consent of one of the participants. Gawker, a website that specialized in disclosing embarrassing information about celebrities, placed on its website a sex tape of Hulk Hogan, whose encounter with a woman was secretly filmed by her husband. Ryan Holiday is one of the worlds foremost thinkers and writers on ancient philosophy and its place in everyday life. This trial presents one of the most difficult First Amendment issues of our time.

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