Rafael Moreu is an American screenwriter, best known for his work in horror and thrillers.
Career
Moreu wrote the movies
''Hackers'' (1995) and ''
The Rage: Carrie 2'' (1999).
[Rafael Moreu Filmography]
, Allmovie, retrieved 2010-12-24[Sterritt, David & Anderson, John (2008) ''The B List: The National Society of Film Critics on the Low-budget Beauties, Genre-bending Mavericks, and Cult Classics We Love'', Da Capo Press, , p. 101] For ''Hackers'', he saw the film as more than just about computer hacking but something much larger: "In fact, to call hackers a counterculture makes it sound like they're a transitory thing; I think they're the next step in human evolution."
He had been interested in hacking since the early 1980s. After the crackdown in the United States during 1989 and 1990, he decided to write a script about the subculture. For research, Moreu went to a meeting organized by the New York-based hacker magazine ''
2600: The Hacker Quarterly''. There, he met Phiber Optik, a.k.a.
Mark Abene
Mark Abene (born February 23, 1972) is an American information security expert and entrepreneur, originally from New York City. Better known by his pseudonym Phiber Optik, he was once a member of the hacker groups Legion of Doom and Masters o ...
, a 22-year-old hacker who spent most of 1994 in prison on hacking charges.
Moreu also hung out with other young hackers being harassed by the government and began to figure out how it would translate into a film. He remembered, "One guy was talking about how he'd done some really interesting stuff with a laptop and payphones and that cracked it for me, because it made it cinematic".
''The Rage: Carrie 2'', which was originally titled ''The Curse'', was initially scheduled to start production in 1996 with
Emily Bergl
Anne Emily Bergl''Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005.''; at ancestry.com (born 25 April 1975) is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Rachel Lang in the supernatural horror film '' The Rage: Carrie ...
in the lead, but production stalled for two years.
[Creepshows: The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Guide by Stephen Jones, p.124] The film eventually went into production in 1998 under the title ''Carrie 2: Say You're Sorry''.
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American male screenwriters
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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