This photos soon popped up on Stopera’s photo stream, and the stories he subsequently wrote about the surreal experience went viral in China.
“Brother Orange,” users from the Chinese social media site Weibo helped Stopera track the man down, and they eventually met each other in person.
For those unfamiliar with this unusual tale, in 2014, Matt Stopera’s iPhone was stolen while he was at a New York bar in early 2014.
Warner Bros and BuzzFeed Motion Pictures have teamed up to make a Brother Orange movie, which Jim Parsons will also produce with his partner Todd Spiewak through their That’s Wonderful Productions company.