Hackers Remake Screenplay Start

Yeah so a while back I started writing a blog post about how Hackers needs a remake way more than Weird Science. And thought, "You know what? Screw it. If I'm going to do this I might as well do it right, damn it." This is mostly just a start to keep me from forgetting some of the ideas I had in my head.

Hackers (Remake)

By Greg Miles

INT. KATE'S APRTMENT

In a dark room a woman, KATE LIBBY in her late 20'or early 30's s is talking on a cell phone while drinking coffee occasionally glancing at a computer screen. She has short hair. Apart from her computer the only other light in her room is a lava lamp. On a shelf in the back in the room there is a small fish bowl with a goldfish.

While this is her home she also has a small room in the back that she uses to house the server of her small internet start up. She's taking a semester break from her graduate studies. She has a part time job but has created an internet startup mostly as a way to keep her mind busy.

//I probably should put more thought into what it does but it's completely irrelevant to the plot and as I think about it if I had a good idea I wouldn't be writing about it. Mine my own my precious.

KATE LIBBY

You know I think I'm going to pack it in.

(Pause, for the other end of the conversation.)

KATE LIBBY (Cont'D)

I had my fun but this is getting boring

 and that was always the plan anyway.

I just needed a break in the real world for a while.

 I won't sell it but I will close it.

Maybe I'll restart it later or something.

(Kate hangs up and puts her cell phone on her desk taking a last swig of coffee before diverting her attention to a computer monitor. The audience sees a shot of her face aglow as she realizes what she is seeing.)

Cut to

Ext. A BAGEL SHOP

//Okay so I'm writing this before breakfast and am a bit hungry.

Sitting beneath an umbrella on a sidewalk is a man in a leather jacket working on a laptop DADE MURPHY, talking to another man with rose colored sun glasses, MUNICK BLANKENSHIP also known as MANNY also known as CEREAL KILLER both in their mid to late 20's.

MUNICK BLANKENSHIP(MANNY)

(Cutting a bagel)Dade What are you doing?

DADE MURPHY

Hacking a server.

MANNY

What the hell man!

You're going to get caught.

DADE

I am not going to get caught.

Plus all these assholes need to be taught a lesson.

MANNY

Oh not this again.

Just let it go bro.

DADE

No. Look I get it most people are morons and I can forgive that. But these companies

 just leave the keys in the

ignition. This 'ill learn 'em. (beat)Da Fuck

MANNY

Let me guess. The key's just got taken

out of the ignition. You gonna eat that?

(Manny points to Dade's egg and bacon sandwich.)

DADE

You know what? Screw it.

//Dade didn't actually get any information on the server, but he's an asshole soo...

Cut To

INT. KATE'S APARTMENT

KATE is frantically shutting down her server having realized that she has been hacked. While she is very focused it is also very apparent that she is pissed as all hell. She was going to abandon the project anyway and still is but this takes all of that off of her terms. Before she was leaving because she was getting bored now she just doesn't want to have to deal with this shit.

There is a quick close up on her cell phone as a text message pops up from a Crash Override who unbeknownst to her is Dade Murphy.

TEXT

You really need to up your game.

She puts the cell phone down as she considers just letting it go, but she is to angry for that. She starts to type on her phone but stops for a second.

She rummages around her room for an old prepaid cell phone with texting that she has.

//Okay I know it's a contrivance but work with me here. Let's just say she has a couple because she likes tinkering and leave it at that.

You can see a close up on the phone which includes her thumbs as she types

TEXT (FROM KATE)

You have tread on my domain

and now you must suffer.

TEXT (FROM DADE)

Mess with the best get destroyed like the rest.

TEXT (FROM KATE)

Fuck Off

TEXT (FROM DADE)

You know there is a way out off this for you.

I won't publish what I got off your server if you shut it down.

TEXT (FROM KATE)

Godddamn it! Fine.

TRACKING SHOT FROM KATE'S

 SERVER ROOM TO HER FRONT DOOR AREA

Kate mostly agrees because she was going to shut down the server anyway. After unplugging the server, she grabs a jacket and a motorcycle helmet off of a shelf by her apartment door.

INT. HALLWAY OUTSIDE KATE"S APARTMENT

I want a close up of her locking the door. With the last shot before opening credits being on the doorknob.

//Okay I know she should go to the cops but that creates a whole lot of plot holes for what I have planned so no. Let's just say she doesn't want to deal with that and angrily lets it go.

Cut to Opening Credits

Cue Orbital. While the credits roll I want a surreal animation detailing the history of numbers and computers. The key word being surreal. It is being set to Orbital. 

Edit: You know on second thought I think I want to set the opening to "In For the Kill" The Danger's Ocean Mix. Then again maybe the Let's Get Ravey Mix. Let's break out the glowsticks.