Best-selling crime novelist Dennis Lehane will take a break from writing about the 1920s, as a recent addition to the Boardwalk Empire writing team, to script something a bit more current. Or rather, a lot more current, telling a story so fresh, it's still unfolding in the headlines. Lehane has been hired to write the screenplay for Silk Road, based on an as-yet-unfinished article by Joshua Davis, which itself is based upon the continuing story of Ross Ulbricht, the Penn State grad who made himself rich by allegedly founding an online black market for drugs. It was that last service that Ulbricht allegedly attempted to make use of personally, in order to get rid of a client who was supposedly blackmailing him. The film will be just like The Social Network, but with a slightly less sympathetic protagonist.