Pirates of Silicon Valley

bjb writes "According to Entertainment Weekly, TNT will be broadcasting in May a show called "Pirates of Silicon Valley", which will follow Steve Jobs (Noah "ER" Wyle) and Bill Gates (Anthony Michael "Wierd Science" Hall). Supposedly this should be "accessible even to the non-computer savvy" " In other words, it probably won't be interesting to us. But I'm curious- We should SlashNET simulcast it and MST it into another dimension. Anyway, that link requires a paid login, but I've seen this elsewhere too so it's definitely true. Someone post some free links if you find 'em.

Comments

might be interesting to 'us'

[Anonymous Coward]

1. bill gates and steve jobs are much more business men
and dealmakers than computer people.. wont the story be heavy with that angle?
i bet alotta slashdotters are interested in that.
business connection with computers and tech?
2. tnt has made some good movies, not hbo but still good.

Poetic Justice

[Anonymous Coward]

Having Billy G. played by Anthony Michael Hall is too funny -- quick, kids, run out and rent all those priceless 80's movies he was in! I couldn't have cast it better myself.

Wierd Science!

[Shiska]

Nuff said!


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Poetic Justice

[Zoloft]

I think Rick Moranis is more suited.

TNT's statement

[strredwolf]

From: http://www.rightnowtech.com/cgi-bin/tnt/tnt?soluti on&11-980829-0028&100-904450259&14-0&15- 0&25-0&3-Silicon.Valley&30-
Through: http://tnt.turner.com

PIRATES OF SILICON VALLEY
Description:
I heard TNT was making a film about Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates. Can you give me some more information?
Solution:
"Pirates of Silicon Valley" starring Noah Wyle as Apple Computer founder Steve Jobs and Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates is an upcoming TNT Original and will air on TNT in
May 1999. Joseph Slotnick will co-star as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Screenwriter Martyn Burke ("The Pentagon Wars") will write and direct the film.

URL that doesn't require a password

[ikluft]

It has an entry in the Internet Movie Database...
http://us.imdb.com/T itle?Pirates+of+Silicon+Valley+(1999)+(TV)

Who's playing RMS?

[slim]

There will be an RMS role, right?

Episode 1 "Gates invents software hoarding"...

STriker RedWolf

[lefty]

if you look at his web page about section, I think he says he's a shapeshifter... and since he goes by strredwolf, guess he's a shapeshifting wolf...

That puzzled me too at first when I read that .sig a few months ago.

Pirates: It's gonna happen

[haaz]

I saw a two-page ad in (I think!) Brill's Content.

It's weird seeing these actors portraying Steve and Gates... the guy who plays Gates is a little too buff.

But yeah, it's gonna air in April.

DiMaggio as Ballmer

[conifer]

Watch out for the guy playing Steve Ballmer - John DiMaggio. This guy has been in a bunch of other stuff (Chicago Hope, MTV, HBO etc) and is fantastic. Really an actor to watch.

Anthony Michael Hall's offical homepage.

[Destacona]

For anyone who needs a good laugh check out "AMH"'s hompage at http://www.hallofmirrors.com/

Make sure to check out his latest album in real audio. It's a keeper.

TNT's statement

[dwoodworth]

I saw "The Pentagon Wars" on video. It's a *very*
funny comedy (!) about the design and testing of
the Bradley (alleged) Fighting Vehicle. No really,
it's *funny* (although I guess it helps to have
spent 8 years in the military and the defense
racket). Check it out. If Burke did "Pirates of
Silicon Valley" anywhere near as well, it will be
a real hoot!

"Secret Diary" Movie

[bitwize]

As a parody of this I think someone should do a movie based upon "The Secret Diary of Bill Gates" - with Mark McKinney as the man himself and David Koechner as Steve Ballmer. Mark and David were both on SNL a couple of years ago. And Mark's impersonation of Bill Gates is close to dead-on, in terms of appearance, sound, and actions; all he needed was a little violent rocking back and forth.