Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
On September 15, 1995, Hackers was released in the theaters to a relative thud, recovering less than half its production budget at the box office. But the tale of a group of high school hackers—with cool-sounding hacker handles like “Zero Cool” and “Acid Burn”—stumbling upon a grand corporate conspiracy found a second life on home video, becoming a cult classic two decades later. Directed by Iain Softley—who’d previously made the Beatles dramatization Backbeat, and subsequently directed K-PAX and The Skeleton Key—the film is all sorts of dated. There’s heartthrob Jonny Lee Miller doing his best to put on a New Yorker accent, there’s some unknown punk named Angelina, there’s the nebulously famous Fisher Stevens. Matthew Lillard’s in it, and so is Marc Anthony. Everyone rollerblades or skateboards. It’s probably the most 90s movie of all time. But despite its residence in an era of phone booths (that sometimes twirl) and modems that go “reeeeee-unnnhhhhhh!” it’s also prescient portrayal of the approaching promises and dangers of this internet thing. I woke up at the crack of dawn to chat with Softley about the 20th anniversary of the movie. MOTHERBOARD: How long has it been since you watched Hackers? Iain Softley: I […]
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