Remember that incredible story of the man who bartered his way from a paper clip to a house in Canada? Well he's just sold out, literally, and sold the movie rights for hard cash to DreamWorks.

Kyle MacDonald has astounded everyone with his successful bartering, and it not only caught the public's imagination but also the eye of DreamWork bosses. According to Hollywood Reporter through Empire:

DreamWorks has paid out to by the rights to MacDonald’s real-life story, which saw him cannily run through 14 trades –including a fish-shaped pen, a camping stove and a snowmobile – all the way to a house in Canada.

"It's a story that speaks to the idea of relative values: What's worthless to one person is priceless to someone else," producer Walter Parkes told The Hollywood Reporter. Parkes and partner/wife Laurie MacDonald (no relation) saw the story of the barter star’s trades online and made an offer. The company is still deciding if the project will become a film, a reality TV series or a sitcom

I could see a great reality show where teams of couplse are given the smallest of items and told to barter to the biggest thing they can over the length of a series. That actually might be quite entertaining. Yet is there really enough here for a movie? I think only if they tied it into another story or two like Pay it Forward. Or perhaps they could expand the story so that it's based around someone's entire life rather than achieving one item?

I don't know, how do you see it working?