Moreau's script found its way to British film director Iain Softley, who had just made Backbeat about the early days of the Beatles. Hackers writer Raphael Moreau came up with the idea after meeting Emmanuel Goldstein - real name Eric Corley - the publisher of a magazine called 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. Meet the Hackers: Lawrence Mason, Jesse Bradford, Renoly Santiago, Matthew Lillard, Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller. "It was a hot topic, and we felt part of a race to get into that subject," recalls Ralph Winter, one of the producers of Hackers. Movie studios were keen to get in on the Web hype. But then came the " eternal September" in 1993, when AOL gave customers access to Usenet. In the early years, there was an influx of new users every September, because one of the only ways to get online was via university computers. 1992 also gave us The Lawnmower Man, which involved a virtual reality cyber-Jesus (yes, really).īy then Tim Berners-Lee had already invented the World Wide Web, which linked early adopters and forward-thinking academics with opportunistic business types and a thriving community of eccentric cybergeeks. Apart from scary sci-fi supercomputers like HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey, the only computer-themed blockbusters were WarGames in 1983 and Sneakers in 1992 - incidentally both written by the same guy, Lawrence C. Hollywood was slow to catch on to the rise of the personal computer. But now, a quarter century later, this forward-looking batch of techno-flicks proved prescient in their concerns about surveillance, corporate power and the corruption of what seemed to be an excitingly democratic new age. It's hard to know what's most dated about these mid-'90s curios: the primitive-looking effects, the funky fashions or the clunky technology depicted on screen.
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