Netflix Greenlights Fifth GameStop-Reddit Project

As of this writing, there are at least five projects in the works about the recent GameStop/Reddit stock price drama and controversy. According to Variety, Netflix is now in production on a documentary series that will look closer at the "seismic shift in how the world's money behaves," and feature "exclusive access" to financial world "luminaries" and key members of the WallStreetBets community.

This new project is coming from Story Syndicate. Previous productions from the company include The Innocence Project (about efforts to exonerate and free wrongly convicted prisoners) and All In: The Fight for Democracy (about the history of voter suppression in the United States).

While there may soon be a separate explanation necessary for why so many projects are suddenly in development for events that only took place a few weeks ago--you can, in the meantime, at least read GameSpot's primer on just what is going on with Reddit and the struggling retail store. It's also likely helpful to remember that while this and the four other projects in development are being explored, it is not necessarily a guarantee these will all see the light of day.

But, for the record, Charles Randolph, co-author of The Big Short recently told the Los Angeles Times that he has gotten several calls asking if he'd be interested in writing a movie--and that he predicts there will eventually be a total of six "serious, active projects" on the topic.

By early February, many politicians and the White House have let it be known they are officially "monitoring" the situation, so it is highly likely there will be more to the story and how each project approaches telling it in the end.