Five years after Jamal Hinton secured himself a seat at Wanda Dench’s thanksgiving dinner thanks to a wrong number, their story is being turned into a Netflix feature film, the streaming giant has announced.
This 2015 article from Gizmodo has plenty of other examples, including Bad Ass, a film loosely based on the viral video “AC Transit Bus Fight,” and the fact that the original Deadpool may never have been greenlit if its leaked test footage hadn’t gone viral.
But the short version is that in 2016, Jamal Hinton posted screenshots of a series of text messages in which Wanda Dench mistakenly invited him to thanksgiving dinner, thinking he was her grandson.
Hinton and Dench have since struck up a friendship and continued to spend Thanksgiving together in the years since, with Dench now inviting Hinton’s girlfriend and family to the festivities.
“We are excited to share our story with the world,” Dench and Hinton said in a joint statement.