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So when is the movie coming out?

Not sure there's enough drama to really make this a good movie. There is some drama and bickering and Romero leaving when he got bored but that's about it.

Are you kidding?? :) The two John' starting out as friends. Chaos Romero vs order Carmar. The rise of a small indie developer to super stardom. The ensuing split with Romero going full hubris with Ion Storm (Heck with the amount of drama and dirt available a movie on ion storm alone would make a great movie). Scenes with an battle axe breaching an office door, a gamer winning a ferrari. An underlying theme of "everyone's expendable".

It would make for one epic movie in the right hands.

Yeah, they did a good job with Indie Game: The Movie [0] with an order of magnitude less drama.

[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1942884/

If The Social Network is a movie then I don't see why the story of Id Software couldn't be a movie.

Mark Zuckerberg is a household name, nobody knows Carmack outside the tech circles. They would have a tough time marketing the movie.

I don't buy that. They managed it with Turing, didn't they?

Well, Turing can be turned into a martyr for gay rights (as I understand they've done with the movie, which I haven't seen). I guess that's a lot "cooler" than anything about Carmack, at least AFAIK.

"The story of the guys that created the FPS" sounds pretty cool to me.

Something something see the guys that practically invented Call of Duty and other shooters. Easy sell.

You're right, but lots of people know about DOOM and Quake right?

I'd pay $8 to see it.

This is pretty much what you'd want.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_%28film%29

That movie was cheesy but for some reason I love it. I don't know why.

I like it because it captures the fantasy of every script kiddie from my generation.

Same here with Johnny Mnemonic :)

I think what makes it so appealing is that it isn't just an action movie with lots of keyboard action. It's actually about hackers and their subculture. The heroes enjoy understanding new things, share books on BSD and compilers, have an annoying wannabe that they nurture, value merit over superficial traits, and have a low tolerance for artifice. It's as if they came out of a jargon file hacker template.

When I said that this movie is more or less a Carmack movie, it's because of how teenage Carmack is described. He's arrogant, but not so much he'd surround himself with idiots. When he meets other smart programmers at Al's company, he's elated.

So yeah, it is cheesy, but it does more justice to the hacker subculture than anything else I've seen. It certainly has more to do with actual hackers than hacker news does.

I love it because it has almost everything that makes a cult movie: bad and punchy dialogs, great soundtrack and an unbalanced cocktail of cool things (including subcultures) the director likes (hackers, rollerblades, cyber). It's as if all these things are more important than the plot itself.

These movies always age well. At that time it was lame. Now it's just a joke about itself.

Just watch "Sneakers" instead of that drivel of a movie.

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