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Napster: The Movie

Posted by chrisd on from the when-the-weird-turn-pro dept.

Joey Patterson writes "Looks like the story of Napster founder Shawn Fanning is headed to the small screen. CNET News.com reports that Fanning has signed a deal with MTV to turn his life story into a movie, which will focus on his personal saga during Napster's rise and fall. There's no word yet on who the cast will be (although Fanning may play himself), but Alex Winter (who played Bill in the "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" movies) will write (and possibly direct) the film."

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  1. For those skeptic by HeavensTrash · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those of you skeptic of Alex Winter's directing abilities, please make sure to see the movie "Freaked" first, which he wrote, directed and starred in.

    Incase you aren't familiar with it, Mr. T is one of the co-stars, playing a man turned into a woman, now the Bearded Lady in a circus side show.

    Oh, now about this movie - I'm sure it'll suck, but that's not his fault.

  2. 2nd attempt at a Napster Movie by jordan · · Score: 4, Informative

    Keep in mind this is the second attempt and producing a Napster movie.

    Starz Pictures had already written a script, and I believed was seeking directors when apparently they just ran out of cash. Bummer.

    In any case, keep your eyes peeled for the book too, which should be out in the Spring!

    --jordan

  3. NOT even CLOSE to a Ripoff! (was:The Idiot box!@) by Bill+Kendrick · · Score: 3, Informative

    Uh... First off, even if there was ANY comparison between the two shows, Insomniac would be the 'rip off,' since it came on the air TEN YEARS LATER! :^)

    Insomniac is a bald stand-up comedian wandering around towns interviewing drunk people on the street at 4am.

    Idiot Box was a bunch of bizarre sketch comedy bits (i.e., it was filmed like any other sketch comedy show - it wasn't out in public interacting with random people).

    Some of the Idiot Box sketches I remember included:

    * Evil Dead parody with Sinead O'Connor
    * Eddie The Flying Gimp
    * Sacrifice Your Daughter To Guar (and all you get is this lousy t-shirt)

    The show was only on about 2 seasons. I really wish I had taped them (not as though I wouldn't have lost the tapes :^) )

    They aired right before (I think) Liquid Television. Some of the cooler animations from that one included:

    * Mighty-Oh's (what's wrong kid, 'fraid of a little... BUG?)
    * Jack Mac and Rad Boy GO!
    * Beavis and Butt-Head
    * Aeon Flux (of course - back when it was cool and there was no dialog, and she died every episode)
    * Milton (turned into the movie 'Office Space')

    Doing a quick Google, I discovered this guy (Drew Neumann) who did sound effects for a lot of the above (both IB and LTV).