Wild Palms
Fans der kult Mini-Serie haben natürlich in der Zwischenzeit zur RC4 gegriffen, die jedoch qualitativ nicht ganz so optimal daherkam ... nun aber veröffentlicht MGM am 04. Oktober in den USA die RC1 als 2 DVD Edition.
LA in the near future, Harry Wykoff accepts a job as presidents of a gigantic TV company. Het is confronted with a total new technology called "The New Reality" where three-dimensional TV animated pictures are projected in living rooms all around the world. Harry launches to the top of the company with his career but once there he is caught in a web of intrigues, betrayal and murder. A game of life and death begins...
Directed by:
Kathryn Bigelow
Keith Gordon
Peter Hewitt
Phil Joanou
Writing credit:
Bruce Wagner
Produced by:
Michael Rauch
Oliver Stone
Bruce Wagner
Original Music by:
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Cast:
James Belushi
Dana Delany
Robert Loggia
Kim Cattrall
Angie Dickinson
Ernie Hudson
Bebe Neuwirth
Nick Mancuso
Charles Hallahan
Robert Morse
David Warner
Ben Savage
Bob Gunton
Brad Dourif
William Gibson
Oliver Stone
1993, 300 Minutes
Oliver Stone's cyberpunk Wild Palms TV miniseries owes perhaps more to David Lynch's Twin Peaks than it does to the writings of William Gibson (who actually makes a small cameo appearance in the film).
The plot involves a monopolistic media company in not-so-distant future out to control to the United States through technology and the media. (Its leader is an ex-science fiction writer/Texan billionaire, basically a mixture between Dianetcs leader, L. Ron Hubbard and former presidential candidate, Ross Perot.) The corporation is opposed at every turn by a group of rebels fighting for individual freedom.