![\"BuzzFeed’s](\"https:\/\/www.pcgamesn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/EllenPage.jpg\" "\\"BuzzFeed’s")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
BuzzFeed is moving into filmmaking, and its debut feature will be about videogames. Ellen Page will star in 1UP, a comedy about esports and GamerGate.<\/p>\n
The news comes via The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, where it’s revealed the movie is to be the first\u00a0production\u00a0from BuzzFeed Studios. Kyle Newman, who made Fanboys, will direct, with a script from Julia York, generally a TV writer, with credits in The Adventures of Puss in Boots and Skylanders Academy.\u00a0According to the report, the flick will be “in the vein of Pitch Perfect, but set in the world of esports with a GamerGate backdrop”.<\/p>\n The premise involves a college student, Vivian Lee, played by Paris Berelc, leaving the college esports team due to sexism,\u00a0but then having to form her own team in order to retain her scholarship.\u00a0Luckily, Ellen Page’s former gaming professional,\u00a0a previous victim of\u00a0GamerGate<\/a>, is around to assist Lee and coach the all-female group to victory against the male-dominated Varsity league. There’s positives and negatives here – Pitch Perfect is a good touchstone for\u00a0a female-centric comedy about Varsity competition, and Ellen Page is generally great, but movies about videogames are far more miss than hit, and esports and GamerGate\u00a0together makes difficult subject matter.<\/p>\n
![](\"https:\/\/www.tops-esport.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/EllenPage.jpg\")
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"