The Internet Just Green-lit The First Meme-To-Movie
by The Daily Eye Team May 31 2017, 4:22 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 43 secsHere’s a Cinderella story made for the 2017 internet: a heist film concept imagined by Twitter users that features Rihanna and Lupita Nyong’o as lead characters is actually going to make it to the big screen. And Ava DuVernay will be directing it—as the Twitter gods demanded. Two years ago, a Tumblr user named elizabitchtaylor posted a photo of Rihanna and Lupita Nyong’o sitting front row at Fashion Week. “They look like they’re in a heist movie with Rihanna as the tough-as-nails leader/master thief and Lupita as the genius computer hacker,” read the caption. A Twitter user tweeted the same photo last month, writing, “Rihanna looks like she scams rich white men and lupita is the computer smart best friend that helps plan the scans (SP).”