MUMBAI: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Pictures has acquired writer Ben Wexler’s comedy Bobism and will adapt the screenplay into a film.

Bobism marks the first comedy-specific purchase by the studio under the supervision of Chairperson, Worldwide Motion Picture Group Mary Parent.

In Bobism, a shy college kid learns that his blog will be the basis for society a 1,000 years from now unless aliens from the future kill him first.

The project will be produced by Contrafilm’s Tripp Vinson, Beau Flynn. Adam F. Goldberg will also serve as a producer on the film.

Vinson says, "Ben Wexler found a way to cleverly combine comedy, action and sci-fi genres and play them real. If Midnight Run and Terminator got married and birthed a Superbad child, this is that movie".