Rafael Moreu

Rafael Moreu (born Template:Birth based on age as of date)<ref name="interlake">Template:Cite news</ref> is an American screenwriter, best known for his work in horror and thrillers.

Early life and education

Moreu was born in Miami, Florida, to a family who had fled Cuba in the early 1960s. He is a graduate of New York University, where he studied film and met his future wife Kristin Ellingson, whom he married in 1989.<ref name="interlake" />

Career

Moreu wrote the movies Hackers (1995) and The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999).<ref name="Allmovie">"Rafael Moreu Filmography", Allmovie, retrieved 2010-12-24</ref><ref name="Sterritt">Sterritt, David & Anderson, John (2008) The B List: The National Society of Film Critics on the Low-budget Beauties, Genre-bending Mavericks, and Cult Classics We Love, Da Capo Press, Template:ISBN, p. 101</ref> For Hackers, he saw the film as more than just about computer hacking but something much larger: "In fact, to call hackers a counterculture makes it sound like they're a transitory thing; I think they're the next step in human evolution."<ref name="McClellan">Template:Cite news</ref> He had been interested in hacking since the early 1980s. After the crackdown in the United States during 1989 and 1990, he decided to write a script about the subculture. For research, Moreu went to a meeting organized by the New York-based hacker magazine 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. There, he met Phiber Optik, a.k.a. Mark Abene, a 22-year-old hacker who spent most of 1994 in prison on hacking charges.<ref name="McClellan"/> Moreu also hung out with other young hackers being harassed by the government and began to figure out how it would translate into a film. He remembered, "One guy was talking about how he'd done some really interesting stuff with a laptop and payphones and that cracked it for me, because it made it cinematic".

The Rage: Carrie 2, which was originally titled The Curse, was initially scheduled to start production in 1996 with Emily Bergl in the lead, but production stalled for two years.<ref>Creepshows: The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Guide by Stephen Jones, p.124</ref> The film eventually went into production in 1998 under the title Carrie 2: Say You're Sorry.

External links

• [https://www.imdb.com/{{#if: 0604360

 | name/{{#if:{{#invoke:ustring|match|1=0604360|2=^nm}}
   | Template:Trim/
   | nm0604360/
   }}
 | {{#if: {{#property:P345}}
   | name/Template:First word/
   | find?q=%7B%7B%23if%3A+%0A++++++%7C+%7B%7B%7Bname%7D%7D%7D%0A++++++%7C+%5B%5B%3ATemplate%3APAGENAMEBASE%5D%5D%0A++++++%7D%7D&s=nm
   }}
 }}{{#if: 0604360  {{#property:P345}} | {{#switch: 
 | award | awards = awards Awards for | biography | bio = bio Biography for
 }}}} {{#if: 
 | {{{name}}}
 | Template:PAGENAMEBASE
 }}] at IMDb{{#if: 0604360{{#property:P345}}
 | Template:EditAtWikidata
 | Template:Main other

}}{{#switch:{{#invoke:string2|matchAny|^nm.........|^nm.......|nm|.........|source=0604360|plain=false}}

 | 1 | 3 =  Template:Main otherTemplate:Preview warning
 | 4 = Template:Main otherTemplate:Preview warning

}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:IMDb name with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|showblankpositional=1| 1 | 2 | id | name | section }}

Template:Authority control