“A Complete Stranger Sent Me 10k on Venmo — But There Was a Catch,” a 2022 viral short story written by Holly Riordan for Thought Catalog, is being turned into a horror movie.

Deadline reports that Joe Russo & Chris LaMont (Hard Kill, The Inheritance) have secured the rights to the story, adapting it into a screenplay titled When a Stranger Venmos.

In the film, an assistant struggling to survive in Los Angeles is thrown a lifeline when a complete stranger offers her increasingly large sums of money to do stranger and...