The best selling book from Michael Lewis, “Flash Boys,” is currently in negotiations to be adapted by Aaron Sorkin. This would be the second project that Sorkin would adapt by the writer as he previously co-wrote the screenplay for Moneyball. 

Sony acquired the nonfiction book back in April and is attempting to get Sorkin to lead the project.

“Flash Boys” follows the practice of high-frequency trading on Wall Street and how it became a way to rig the system. Lewis’ book revolves around a group of men on Wall Street including Sergey Aleynikov, a one-time programmer for Goldman Sachs, and Brad Katsuyama, the founder of IEX, the Investor’s Exchange

The film adaptation is being produced by Scott Rudin and Eli Bush. Rudin and Sorkin are frequent collaborators, having worked together on Social Network and the HBO series The Newsroom.

Lewis’ book was published March 31 and became an immediate best-seller.