What they were looking for originally, their idea was a kid who was going to become Stephen Hawking’s protege. She was a secretary to Marty Caan, who is James Caan, the actor, his brother, and he was at least at that time he was representing, I'm not sure it was both Larry and Walter, but at least one of them, he was representing at least one of them. This Q&A has been condensed and edited from a podcast interview with Lewis.ĭennis Fisher: I know that the writers, Lasker and Parkes, talked to a bunch of security experts while doing research for the movie and the original script wasn't exactly ended up being WarGames, but how did the writers end up getting into contact with you originally?ĭavid Scott Lewis:Ě friend of mine was working as a secretary at the William Morris Agency in Beverly Hills. During their research, the writers were introduced to a young California hacker named David Scott Lewis, who became the model for Matthew Broderick's character David Lightman, and helped the writers move the story in the direction of hacking, AI, and the influence of machines in our society. Parkes, originally imagined the story as the tale of a brilliant scientist, based on Stephen Hawking, and his young protege. The writers of the movie, Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. It's at once an artifact of the Cold War era-filled with anachronistic technology, Soviet paranoia, and bumbling military leaders-and a prescient film that foresaw the rise of young hackers and the tight grip that technology would have on daily life. WarGames occupies a special place in American pop culture.
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