When Rolling Stone chronicled the story of a stripper named Zola who entranced the Internet with a 148-tweet yarn involving prostitution and murder, the magazine described her epic Twitter rant as reading like “Spring Breakers meets Pulp Fiction, as told by Nicki Minaj.” So it sorta makes sense that, of all the filmmakers in Hollywood, James Franco would want to tackle this particular edgy tale.

On Thursday, Variety reports that Franco is developing David Kushner’s Rolling Stone feature “Zola Tells All: The Real Story Behind The Greatest Stripper Saga Ever Tweeted” for the screen. Franco will direct from a script written by Andrew Neel and Mike Roberts, with whom he recently collaborated on the well-received Sundance drama Goat.

For those unfamiliar with Zola’s Twitter rant, it began last October, when the then 20-year-old wrote, “Okay listen up. This story long. So I met this white bitch at Hooters. . .” Zola’s story went on to chronicle a wild road trip to Florida—with her friend Jessica, Jessica’s boyfriend Jarrett, and Jessica’s violent Nigerian pimp “Z”—that involved one character jumping from a four-story window and another being murdered.

Among the well-known artists who began following Zola’s story online: Missy Elliott, Keke Palmer, Solange Knowles, and Ava DuVernay. In fact, the last was so impressed that she issued this rave review on Twitter: “Drama, humor, action, suspense, character development, there’s so much untapped talent in the hood.”

If it gives you a sense of Zola, the spunky character at the center of this fabulously gonzo story, she responded directly to the Selma director, “I’m not from the hood tho Ava. Ima suburban bitch. Still love you tho.” [sic]