Vegas hacking tale headed to big screen

The wild tale of the two men who took Vegas for millions after discovering a software bug in a popular video poker machine is headed for the silver screen.

Comedian Jonah Hill is expected to star in the upcoming film adaptation of a Wired magazine article from October 2014, reported entertainment news outlet Variety.

The piece recounts how two friends, Andre Nestor and John Kane, moved up and down the Las Vegas strip, raking in tens of thousands of dollars a day off a bug that allowed them to turn modest payouts into $10,000 jackpots.

{mosads}But the partnership quickly unravelled into bickering over how to divvy up the mounting sums, and gaming officials eventually caught on to the scheme in late 2009.

Within months, the two were being federally prosecuted for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a 1986 law intended to penalize hackers for remotely accessing banking or military computers.

The government eventually dropped the charges in 2013 after the CFAA increasingly came under scrutiny as an outdated law being inappropriately used on modern technology.

Nestor and Kane haven’t spoken since since 2009.

The filmmaking team behind the project, Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul, previously wrote the Jim Carrey comedy “Yes Man” together.