The Lion Gate, a film and television production company, announced in Wednesday that it would Nick Bilton Nick Bilton's best-selling book on Twitter undertaking to a television screen.
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Although Twitter's number of users is less than http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/1560.html ">facebook, it is not yet profitable, but similar to Facebook, Twitter's undertaking is also full of exciting moments. Hollywood is very bullish on the subject.
As the New York Times columnist, Bilton wrote the book "incubating Twitter." He will be responsible for the creation of the television script and be the producer of the TV show. Erison Chirmoux, Allison Shearmur, one of the 4 executive producers of The Hunger game, will be the executive producer of the show.
The film and television industry is interested in the subject of Twitter undertaking. Wired magazine quoted sources as saying that a number of producers wanted to make the book a television, and Paramount was the closest competitor to the Lion Gate Film Company.
"I can't think of a better story than this," said Kevin Beggs, chairman of the Lion Gate Film TV Group, in a Kevin Bergs. Twitter has changed every aspect of our lives, whether it's politics, business, or friendship. ”
The "Hatch Twitter" book, which was sold and quickly hit on November 5, ranked 14th in the New York Times's nonfiction bestseller list, ranking 5th in the Wall Street Journal hardcover business Books. The New York Times published an excerpt from the book in October, which talked about the scramble for control by Twitter's early employees.
Lions Gate film has been produced by the TV series including "Mad Men" and "women's prison" and so on.