It's actually clever. And lucrative.
All they have to do is slap an "Inspired by a true story" tag on it, and they can change the Gamergate story into anything they want. ZQ can appear on the red carpet as the "inspiration" behind the beautiful, innocent, "trying to break into a hostile industry with nothing but inner bravery and a dream" lass, and Gamergate's greatest strength, that being "an amorphous collective of people with no structure" becomes it's greatest, most vulnerable, most profitable weakness: an amorphous collective of people with no structure cannot sue for libel.
Remember the Tom Hanks 2013 film Captain Phillips? That was inspired by a true story, and oh, wasn't he a brave, heroic victim? Didn't you just love him? Never mind the fact that in the true events, he was an incompetent bastard that practically invited the pirates onboard due to his idiocy.
>“The crew had begged Captain Phillips not to go so close to the Somali coast,” said Deborah Waters, the attorney who brought the claim. “He told them he wouldn’t let pirates scare him or force him to sail away from the coast.”
> “It is galling for them to see Captain Phillips set up as a hero,” Waters said. “It is just horrendous, and they’re angry.”
The crew were horrified by the film. and insulted. And angry. But oh, the academy awards doth flow, such a heroic captain bravely taking care of his crew at the expense of his own safety. SO BRAVE…
The film will be a farcical reimagining, low cost, big payoff, and the "amorphous group" it recasts as the breaking-and-entering, hacking, LITERAL rapists (like the film's villain Aaron Gonjee, who raped the female star and carried out his threat to ruin her reputation by unleashing his Social Media Troll Army at Kiachan)… can't do a thing about it.
Because it's simply "inspired by a true story". Meant to "shed light on a serious issue that is facing society, which deserves frank, open discussion.