June 8, 2008
DiCaprio to play Bushnell in the movie Atari
As Variety and The Hollywood Reporter relate, Paramount has just reached for its wallet after hearing a pitch for the movie Atari by writers Brian Hecker and Craig Sherman. Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company Appian Way will produce the film, which is to star DiCaprio as Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell. Gamers and others from the Internet comment on Kotaku and Digg.
Ian Bogost and I will be glad to help whip potential moviegoers into a frenzy with our book Video Computer System: The Atari 2600 Platform, which will be out by the beginning of 2009.
June 8th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Whose going to play Chris Crawford? Bruce Willis?
June 9th, 2008 at 8:35 am
Nah… Christian Slater as the young Crawford, and Christopher Walken for the later years, definitely.
June 9th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
haha, why is it that everyone including me immediately had that question?
Dennis Hopper. He would add some great obscenities to the rants about “the verbs”.
June 9th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Not to mention, imagine Dennis Hopper doing the Dragon Speech.
June 10th, 2008 at 8:27 am
I second Hopper.
June 10th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
In proper alpha-geek /. fashion, I feel I should point out that Crawford came to Atari a full generation later, well after Bushnell had departed Atari.
That said, you are all fools for a different reason: clearly the obvious casting choice for Crawford would be John Malkovich.