“It was a media circus over here and it definitely stuck in my mind,” Trub, 31, told the Daily News. “There was a funny aspect to the pictures of (Weiner) in the gym, taking selfies, but I decided to turn it into a crime thriller, asking, what if it wasn’t just pictures? What if everything spirals out of control and he doesn’t just screw up his own life, but his actions bring down a lot of people around him, which actually did happen to [Weiner] in reality.”