Great story on cracking lottery scratch-off tickets

My mom loves them, but won’t go buy them. She sends my dad, or me, when I’m visiting.

 

There was a bidding war for the movie rights. Every narrative writer's financial dream.

Ben Affleck And Matt Damon Will Tangle With The Mob In McDonald's Monopoly Movie

 

So that guy's life basically changed in a week?

 

Matt has to play the guy.

 

How do you approach it? A goofy crime comedy was my first thought.

However it is potrayed, Joe Maggard making harassing phone calls as Ronald McDonald has to make the final cut. Hell, buy the rights just to make the movie about Joe with some tangential link to the Monopoly game

 

Quick, option the story about the producer planting articles to be optioned.

 

What is even real anymore?

 

Savvy movie producer.

 

This is not an uncommon practice.

 

The Vulture update is interesting. What I don't get is the folks on Twitter all upset about it (I haven't seen Twitter rage about it but that'll be the next step). The producer found a great story. The writer researched the hell out of it and wrote a great piece. They found a home for the story (PLANTED!). The journalism is as solid now as it was before the Vulture story.