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.
