Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment buys movie rights to Steubenville rape case coverup controversy from Anonymous

The controversial and terrifying rape accusations of two Steubenville High School athletes last year could be coming to the big screen thanks to Brad Pitt. His production company, Plan B Entertainment, this week purchased the rights to David Kushner's Rollingstone article "Anonymous vs. Steubenville." This article follows the story of hacker collective Anonymous member Deric Lostutter's involvement with the case.

The Daily Dot reports:

With Lostutter as a protagonist, the film (to be co-produced by New Regency) will no doubt focus on the ethos of Anonymous, as well as the strange legal standards that have landed so many hackers behind bars while violent sex criminals walk free time and again. Best case scenario, such a work could highlight systemic injustice and force a change-if not in the spirit of the law, then perhaps for Lostutter himself. The Thin Blue Line, an Errol Morris documentary, famously helped to secure release for a man wrongly convicted of murder.

Pitt's Plan B will take on the project, which will be its first since 12 Years a Slave.

Anonymous confirmed this movie news with a Twitter post this week. Check it out right here:

Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment has bought the rights to the Rolling Stone article Anonymous vs Steubenville https://t.co/REQOshR38y

— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) April 1, 2014

Lostutter himself took to Twitter to address the news as well:

At this time I have no further comment about the Brad Pitt Plan B movie on my life coming out. Please direct your questions to my lawyer — KYAnonymous (@DericLostutter) April 1, 2014