Depression Quest designer Zoe Quinn has announced that she is writing a memoir about her battle with GamerGate, and that it has already been picked up for publication and optioned for film.

As reported by Deadline, former Sony executive Amy Pascal’s Pascal Pictures has won a bidding battle for Crash Override: How To Save The Internet From Itself.

Apparently several studios and TV outlets bid on the property, and Scarlett Johansson is said to be keen to play Quinn.

Prior, the memoir was sold to Touchstone/Simon & Schuster for publication next September.

Here’s how Deadline summarised the deal:

The movie deal was based on a proposal titled Control Alt Delete, and tells the story of how Quinn, creator of the hip interactive game Depression Quest, was targeted by a digital mob bent on upending her life when a blog post by her ex-boyfriend went viral. It sparked the widely-discussed Gamergate controversy and took a surprising turn when instead of running, she decided to fight back. It is a very inside look at gaming and nerd culture and what happens when one gets caught in the gears of that machine.

“Gaming and internet message boards used to be niche interests, mostly for young men. In the past few years, however, they’ve gone mainstream,” wrote Quinn in her proposal.

“Millions of people – including women and other marginalised people – have taken an interest in the platforms, image boards, and discussion forums that once belonged by default to a much smaller population. Most gamers give zero fu*ks about this. Like the rest of us, they’re just here to play games.

“But a vocal minority are clinging onto the brand of Cheetos-and-Mountain-Dew exclusionary identity ‘hardcore gamer,’ muttering ‘f*ckin casuals’ under their breath.”