"running in the background"
or will it be "Terminate and Stay Resident".
I vote Jim Carrey for lead.
Antivirus pioneer John McAfee, who found himself at the centre of Central America's hottest manhunt in recent history, has sold the exclusive film rights to his life story. McAfee was named by police as a "person of interest" but not a suspect following the murder of his neighbour Gregory Faull in Belize in November. McAfee …
The problems with Alien 3 were nothing to do with Fincher, he got the gig because the studios thought they could boss him around due to his then inexperience. There is no 'director's cut' of the film, but the 'Assembly Cut' of the film is different, plot wise, and is actually a reasonable watch with some strong British actors.
Fincher later made Se7en, and The Game with Michael Douglas as a Gordon Gecko-style businessman discovering the perils of giving away too much personal information. The unreliable narrator structure of Fight Club is probably why he was added this list by Reg staff.
Benjamin Button- well, Fincher isn't alone in occasionally making films aimed at the mass-market box office. In fact it's hard to think of any director who is 'all killer no filler'.
Bruce Robinson's 'How to Get Ahead in Advertising' is probably a better argument for his inclusion in this McAfee. list than 'Withnail and I'.
Terry Gilliam is currently filming a movie about a reclusive computer programmer with an unsettled relationship with the state in which he lives, starring the excellent Christoph Waltz. However, having a director make a second film with a South American country as its title would be neat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zero_Theorem
I've already expressed support for Gilliam to get the job in a couple of posts on these forums, but on reflection, I think Werner Herzog is a strong candidate. Why? He's delivered altered states of conciousness in The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (2009), and has also directed an escape through the jungle film, Rescue Dawn (2006).
>on that criteria alone it's got to be Johnny Depp
For sure , but Mr Depp does seem a bit too comfortable playing nutters. His Hunter S Thompson seems almost nonchalant. Nicolas Cage in Bad Lieutenant appears to be just on the verge of falling apart at the seams throughout most of the film.
But yeah, Herzog or Gilliam.
Fitzcarraldo, surely, but even more Aguirre Wrath of the Gods are THE Herzog jungly-escapy movies!
My god, Herzog directing Alien3 would have been a sight to see: the end of Aguirre, where the drifting raft is overrun by scores of monkeys...
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Well, there's plenty of background material a potential scriptwriter can draw on. A Bug's Life and The Blob spring immediately to mind.
As for a director, I think M Night Shyalaman could come up with some...interesting...ideas. Perhaps have some kind of otherworldly demon take control of John McAfee and the plucky heroine saves the day by showing him the source code for the latest version of McAfee AV. As his neurons absorb the logical structure of it, his creation battles the demon in McAfee's mindscape. The twist is it turns out the demon was actually McAfee AV 2014 released prematurely.
Was thinking more along the lines of Aronofsky directing - think Pi, Requiem for a Dream... haven't seen his last two yet. I'm not sure about the lead actor, but there isn't anyone better at bringing a deadly uncomfortable sense of mania, paranoia and anxiety to the screen than Aronofsky.
Tommy Chong just doesn't seem like the 'shoving-bath-salts-up-his-backside' type if you know what I mean...
He's got the heuristic detection and removal process down pat, though...
" I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you leave my PC now and stop hijacking my browser, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you. "
Maybe Willem Dafoe, that or Gary Busey. No one does the whole crazy thing quite like those two. I would gladly queue for the opening night of this masterpiece of modern cinema.
I guess the toss up between "Running in the Background" or "False Positive Detection" for the tagline depends entirely on the result of a trial.
If The Hobbit can be stretched into three films
No stretching required. Don't cut anything out of the book and you'll EASILY get three films. When they make anything more than a children's book into a movie there's a significant amount of squashing going on to make it fit. Three movies will give them the ability to do the book justice.
Whereas on the other hand, We Can Remember It For You, Wholesale is a short story that can probably be read through in less time than it takes to watch either of the film adaptations.
I do hope the latest Total Recall ends in the same way as the short story, if only because it's completely unhinged.
Often short stories make better films than full novels... certainly most of Philip K Dicks stories that have become films were short stories.
The latest Total Recall is a curious beast, trying deliberately at times to break with the Paul Verhoven version in some interesting ways, and at others to pay homage to it. The editing wasn't quite to my taste, and left me feeling it was less than the sum of its parts, but YMMV. As for the ending, you'd best watch it yourself. Still, Kate Beckinsale...
You don't have to go to Philip K Dick to get a faster-to-read book. The Village Voice movie reviewer read the Hobbit for comprehension and enjoyment, not speed-reading, and had 20min to spare to reach the same point in the movie. With a fair comparison, so not counting the 17min of end-credits etc.
Soon to be seen on general release in a Poundland DVD bin near you.
Then again, people watched the Zuckerbitch movie and that didn't have murder, dead dogs, itinerant dolphin salesmen or Bath Bomb Bum Banditry in it.......
First off, let me say that I am going to drop the A-bomb on the leading man argument. Two words that will close all debate--Christopher Walken!!
Second, as far as directors go, the Coen brothers could mine a rich vein of "Fargo-esque" tragicomedy out of this. Steven Soderbergh or George Clooney can bring the same loopy sensibility that was found in "The Informer" or "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind". Terry Gilliam could do a lot with this too, since this looks a lot like a modern-day Baron Munchhausen movie.
After seeing his performance in fear and loathing in las vegas I doubt anyone else could do justice to McAfee's hijinks.
I don't know if I could imagine any of the other actors in a scene wherein they blacked up, stock tampons up their nose and decided that this would definitely work before braving it out in their new disguise... apart from Johnny Depp.
OK, Depp for the young vibrant anitvirus executive, partying hard at the top of the world.
John Hurt to play the older McAfee, as he begins his slow decent into sanity. Only Hurt could play the pain of the slow realization, as McAfee comes to terms with the truth - the world is, indeed, out to kill him.
Escape icon - We're all rooting for AcAfee to escape, find the golden antivirus code that both the bad guys and the government want to bury, and drive off into the sunset with his beautiful movie love interest.
I would pay money to go see this IF, and only IF, they made this a comedy and right before McAfee get's ready to do or say something stupid, they would put that scene in from the Chapelle show with Rick James saying "Cocaine is a hell of drug".
Yeah,,,, I'm beating a bead horse with that one......