First pirates, and now role-playing gamers—director Gore Verbinski has a knack for highlighting quirky characters. The Pirates of the Caribbean helmer has recently acquired the rights to a Wall Street Journal article about a 53-year-old married man who lives an alternate life as a gym rat entrepreneur in an online fantasy world, reports Variety. Spending 20 hours a day online does not, surprisingly, have positive effects. Universal Pictures will produce the as-yet-unwritten script by Steven Knight (of the Viggo Mortensen drama Eastern Promises). But will players pry themselves away from their desktops to watch?
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