Deadline.com reported today that the demise of Gawker.com, which was brought on as a result of Hulk Hogan winning a civil lawsuit against the website for publishing and then refusing to remove video of a secretly shot sex tape featuring the former WWF champion and the wife of his then-best friend, Bubba the Love Sponge, is being developed by David A. Neuman’s Blackrock Productions as a feature film or limited series.
Blackrock Productions has acquired the recently published book Conspiracy – Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker and the Anatomy of Intrigue, which reviews the series of events that led to the death of Gawker from the standpoint of Thiel, a silicon valley mogul, backing Hogan's lawsuit financially in order to push Gawker to the brink of financial ruin via the legal system.
Hogan won a $140 million judgment against Gawker in the civil case.
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