February 25, 2005
Napster movie acquires Alex Winter as writer - "Excellent!"
You know some real life movies just instantly lend themselves to the cinematic medium, even from the conception stage and the two line pitch. However, this one I'm struggling with.
According to Variety, through Coming Soon, Alex Winter has been hired by Paramount and MTV Films to write Napster: The Shawn Fanning Bio Project.
In 1999 Fanning created Napster (his own nickname) in his dorm room at Northeastern University in Boston as a way for collegians to swap music files on the Internet. He dropped out of school to launch Napster as an online business, prompting lawsuits from the Recording Industry Association of America, Dr. Dre and Metallica.
Could this be Bill and Ted meets The Insider? With Winters on board I'm not so sure it's going to be too much of a serious movie. Winter's writing bio includes the wonderfully titled, Squeal of Death! Ahem.
I hope there is some attempt to make a serious comment about the control of the Studios here, and some reflection made to the Movie Industry themselves, instead of just a greedy attempt to harness a popular culture story. Who am I kidding, I know which way it will go.
Posted by at February 25, 2005 08:02 AM
Comments
Posted by: Simone at February 25, 2005 08:31 AM
I think Alex Winter is also a pretty solid director...
...well actually the only movie I've see that he directed was 'Freaked', which I like a lot because it's so quirky and fun. I wish it were on dvd, but I've yet to find it.
Anyway, nice to hear he's still out there involved in the film industry.
Posted by: trysop at February 25, 2005 01:10 PM
Freaked was AWESOME. One of Randy Quaid's best perfomances.
Posted by: adam at February 25, 2005 05:41 PM
I agree - Randy Quaid was the best in that. I've been telling people about Freaked for years but no one has seen it.
Posted by: trysop at February 26, 2005 01:14 AM
Freaked needs to come out on DVD. They also need to make a sequel. With movies like that you can't go to wrong with sequels.
Posted by: lizardfreak12 at July 12, 2005 07:31 PM
Wow!!!! I am eating my lunch just as I was refreshing my browser, so imagine what I just spit!
Wow, wow, wow! I am more interested on the actor they'd get to play Shawn. *laughs* I am thinking the likes of Hayden Christensen or Peter Sarsgaard,("ever saw them in Shattered Glass"?) Jake Gyleenhall, Zach Braff, (maybe he can collaborate on the screenplay whoever this dude is) & Topher Grace...???
"I hope there is some attempt to make a serious comment about the control of the Studios here, and some reflection made to the Movie Industry themselves, instead of just a greedy attempt to harness a popular culture story".
I am with you on this one too Rich. Please let this not be a mess.