Michael Lewis’ The New New Thing is optioned for a new feature film

Filmmaker Richard Dewey’s Convexity Films production company (Radical Wolfe, Burden) has optioned Michael Lewis’s influential book The New New Thing, to be adapted into a narrative feature film. Three of Lewis’s previous books have been adapted into Academy-Award-nominated films: Moneyball, The Blind Side, and The Big Short. He is known for his ability to take complex subjects of contemporary economics and make them accessible and engaging for a broad audience.

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The project, produced by Dewey, will be developed on an accelerated timeline. Brian Kaufman, a Los Angeles-based private equity manager, is executive producing.

Michael Lewis’s best-selling and critically acclaimed book The New New Thing is an insightful and engaging exploration of the dot-com boom and the technological innovations that fueled it. It focuses on the life and ventures of Jim Clark, a Silicon Valley pioneer who founded three billion-dollar companies in the early days of the

“This was an electric time in technology and business and the ideas from that period continue to resonate,” said Lewis. “I can’t wait to see it on the big screen.”

Added Dewey, “This is my favourite Michael Lewis book, and it represents a singular moment when the internet entered the mainstream. In many ways, this story is the prologue to The Social Network. I’m thrilled to be partnering with Michael again to bring this amazing story to the big screen.”

Richard Dewey is a New York-based writer and filmmaker who recently collaborated with Michael Lewis on his feature documentary Radical Wolfe, about author and journalist Tom Wolfe. The film was adapted from Lewis’s acclaimed Vanity Fair article How Tom Wolfe Became…Tom Wolfe. Dewey’s first film, Burden, was a feature documentary about the art world provocateur Chris Burden which was released by Magnolia Pictures.