Bill And Ted star Alex Winter is making a Napster movie
Perfectly timed for the national argument of 10 years ago, a documentary about the rise of once-controversial, Metallica-enraging music sharing service Napster is in the works for VH1, backed by the same division that previously explored pissed-off metal bands in Anvil: The Story Of Anvil. To be fair, the lack of timeliness can’t really be helped: A narrative version of the Napster story has been in the works for about a decade at Paramount's MTV Films division, until that more or less fell apart. But it's remained forever on the mind of Alex Winter, who also knows something about dredging up the past and metal bands thanks to his years of service on the Bill And Ted franchise (the third edition of which is still supposedly forthcoming). Winter, of course, has long since transitioned to directing, having helmed the underrated Freaked as well as several TV projects, and most recently attached himself to a 3-D update of 1987 horror film (and mid-’90s HBO mainstay) The Gate. Which also has something to do with metal, come to think of it.