There's been a lot of talk about someone somewhere working on a Year 200 but movie dealing with the techno-apocalypse we are all allegedly going to face in the year 2000. What follows is a highly reliable sourced piece of info about just such a project that is moving along it seems. Here ya go...
Chris O'Donnell is teaming up with Sean Connery in a film set on the eve of the year 2000 that deals with the Y2K bug. It's an action/adventure paranoia/conspiracy type thriller much in the vein of Will Smith's latest, "Enemy of the State." In the film, Sean Connery plays a brilliant computer programmer who discovers the Y2K problem back in the early 80's. He goes around the computer industry ranting and raving about the problem so much that he becomes denounced as a doomsayer and is cast out of the industry. Fast forward to 1999 and Chris O'Donnell. His character plays a man whose father is accussed of murder (for a reason I never caught). During his search to clear his father's name, he stumbles upon a Russian mafia group getting ready to unleash thousands of computer viruses into the computer systems of the U.S., all set to trigger on 01-01-00. So Chris O'Donnell tracks down Sean Connery, who by now is an eccentric computer hacker. Together they team up to stop the terrorists and clear the father's name, all before the year 2000 hits.
Sounded pretty interesting to me. It has shades of "Enemy of the State" and "Conspiracy Theory," and O'Donnell never impresses me, but Connery is enough to make me see this film. I heard it refered to as "The Rock 2" but I think that was a "Hollywood-speak" description and not the actual title since it was clear to me that Connery was playing a completely different character. No word on the director, but I can assume it would be shooting soon. Y2K is just around the corner. I could be wrong, but it may be the film mentioned over at Corona called WW3.com.
Just call me Honeycomb Jones.
