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."
McAfee is most famous these days for his exploits in Belize, where he was a "person of interest" according to authorities in the murder of his neighbor. He fled the country to avoid questioning by the police, wound up in detention in Guatemala, and was eventually deported to the United States of America.
"The tone of the movie is essentially how an entrepreneur and former drug user whose fortune was built selling fear and paranoia, sold his estates and toys to build the equivalent of an armed compound in the Belize jungle and became consumed by the same kind of paranoia that others were out to get him," says Deadline.
McAfee Spoofs Hugh Hefner
Meanwhile in his latest YouTube Video, McAfee spoofs Playboy founder Hugh Hefner
Entitled, “The McAfee Guide to Uninstalling McAfee Antivirus,” the 67-year-old takes a swipe at the software empire that he built in the 1980s. In an opulent setting surrounding by a bevy of buxom women, McAfee says:
“Although I’ve had nothing to do with this company for over 15 years, I still get volumes of mail asking, ‘How do I uninstall this software?’ I have no idea,” says a silk robe-dressed McAfee before setting a bill on fire to light a cigarette.