Warner Bros. is talking to Ed Wood scribes Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski to write a film about the idiosyncratic Silicon Valley businessman and scourge of online viruses, John McAfee.
Deadline reports that Crazy, Stupid, Love directors John Requa and Glenn Ficarra hope to helm and produce the film, which will be based on a Wired Magazine article called “John McAfee’s Last Stand.”
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Filmmaker Tim Burton will direct Oscar winner Christoph Waltz and Amy Adams in Big Eyes, written by Ed Wood scribes Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski. The Weinstein Company will fund and distribute the project.
According to Deadline, Waltz and Adams will play Walter and Margaret Keane, whose paintings of large-eyed children became one of the first mass marketed art sensations in the 1950s and ’60s. While Margaret was generally considered the better artist of the two, Walter took the lion’s share of the credit. Following their divorce, they ended up in court over due rights to their artwork. Once there, a judge provided them with two easels and ordered them to prove which artist was more capable.
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