Warner Bros. Pictures has bought the rights to the film, A$$hole!: How I Got Rich & Happy by Not Giving a F#@% About You, in association with Spring Creek.

The film is based on Martin Kihn's nonfiction book that chronicles the author's transformation from sweet guy to complete jerk. Variety adds he hatched the unusual plan after being told by his bosses at the New York ad agency where he works that he was simply too nice to be promoted. Instead, the 40-year-old was passed on by a younger, not-so-nice colleague.

There's no production schedule for A$$hole!: How I Got Rich & Happy by Not Giving a F#@% About You.