Brad Pitt’s production company acquires hacker story

After their Oscar win for '12 Years a Slave', actor Brad Pitt's production company Plan B has acquired another truestory about a hacker who was jailed for exposing two rapists.

‘Anonymous vs Steubenville’, a Rolling Stone article, tells the story of Deric Lostutter, a member of the hacker group Anonymous who helped expose a cover-up of the rape of a 16-year-old girl by two high school football players in Steubenville, Ohio.

After their Oscar win for ’12 Years a Slave’, actor Brad Pitt’s production company Plan B has acquired another truestory about a hacker who was jailed for exposing two rapists.

But Lostutter was charged with identity theft and threatening action against the rapists.

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New Regency and Brett Ratner and James Packer’s RatPac Entertainment teamed up to buy the rights to the Rolling Stone article “Anonymous vs Steubenville,” written by David Kushner, for Plan B to produce. The two companies are also financing
development of the project, said the Hollywood Reporter.

The producers are yet to find a director for the project.

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