James Franco to direct film based on 'Zola's' epic Twitter story

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In October, a stripper named Aziah “Zola” Wells captivated the Internet as she told #TheStory about her harrowing experience with trafficking and a horrible road trip gone wrong.

“Okay, listen up. This story long. So I met this white b***h at Hooters…” That’s how Zola’s story begins, and as it unfolded across dozens of tweets, the rest of the world looked on in both fascination and horror. In fact, the story was so captivating that Rolling Stone’s David Kushner landed and published an exclusive story, “Zola Tells All: The Real Story Behind the Greatest Stripper Saga Ever Tweeted.”

#TheStory shocked the Internet with “her harrowing road trip to Florida with said ‘white b***h,’ Jessica; Jessica’s maudlin boyfriend, Jarrett; and Jessica’s violent Nigerian pimp, ‘Z.’ Tricks get turned, a hustler gets murdered, Jarrett leaps from a four-story window,” Kushner writes. “It reads like Spring Breakers meets Pulp Fiction, as told by Nicki Minaj.”

The story itself may have had a few disparities, but it did lead to a very real takedown of a sex trafficking scheme which led to the arrest of the Nigerian pimp, ‘Z.’

Now, according to Variety, a movie based on that Rolling Stones article is in the works, with James Franco, Andrew Neel and Killer Films reportedly on board to develop the film.