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Paramount/MTV Taking a Napster
Originally planned as a telepic, the story of Napster creator Shawn Fanning
will now be brought to the big screen.
Tuesday, March 1, 2005
By Lisa Johnson
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Winter brings Napster to the big screen
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Paramount and MTV Films have given the greenlight to Napster: The Shawn
Fanning Bio Project and have signed Alex Winter to write the screenplay.
The project was originally intended for television, but it was recently decided
that it would be taken to the big screen.
The film will focus on how, in 1999, Fanning created Napster (his own nickname) in his dorm room at Northeastern University in Boston as a way for collegians to swap music files on the Internet. He dropped out of school to launch Napster as an online business and was sued by the Recording Industry Assn. of America, Dr. Dre and Metallica. Fanning's company filed for bankruptcy in 2002, but he recently launched Snocap in an effort to make peer-to-peer networks legitimate.
Some of Winter's more prominent writing and directing works include Freaked and Fever, along with extensive work as a music video and commercial director in Europe. But he is perhaps best known for acting in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey and The Lost Boys. He is currently attached to direct Crossroads Films' Acts of Charity.
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