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If you have been craving more of that real-life, edge-of-your-seat drama we enjoyed following the adventures of John McAfee just a few years ago, you're in luck.
A movie about the notorious tech magnate is in the works, with actor Johnny Depp filling the lead role, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The dark comedy, titled "King of the Jungle," is based on a 2012 Wired article about a journalist's experience chronicling McAfee's journey from tech entrepreneur to cocaine addict to fugitive.
The article, "John McAfee's Last Stand," by Joshua Davis, follows McAfee as he loses his fortune and moves to the jungle of Belize, setting up a "Colonel Kurtz-like compound of guns, sex and madness," according to The Hollwood Reporter. The movie is about escalating paranoia, slippery reality and murder, according to the report.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @03:45PM
If Depp can go as deep as he went into Hunter Thompson in the movie version of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", this ought to be a great movie. This https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas_%28film%29 [wikipedia.org] notes that it is still a cult film... (I've seen it several times, always entertaining).
On the other hand, comparisons of McAfee with Colonel Kurtz in "Apocalypse Now" seem like quite a stretch. If you haven't seen the extended directors cut, "Apocalypse Now Redux" I highly recommend it. My takeaway was that every scene played out to the end, unlike most movies where scenes are often clipped or cut to make a ~2 hour movie.