McAfees Escape From Belize Turns Movie

Tale of eccentric antivirus founder John McAfees escape to Guatemala and Miami set to be adapted by the team behind Crazy, Stupid, Love.

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The story of eccentric 67-year-old antivirus firm founder John McAfees escape from Belize, to Guatemala, to Miami, is set to hit the big screen.
Warner Bros. has optioned the rights to
John McAfees Last Stand,
a
Wired
story written by contributor Joshua Davis,
reported

Hollywood Reporter
.
John Requa and Glenn Ficarr will reportedly adapt the story, as well as direct and produce the film. The pair previously directed the 2011 Warner Bros. comedy
Crazy, Stupid, Love
, which earned $143 million worldwide. Both
Wired
publisher Conde Nast Entertainment and Davis will serve as movie co-producers.
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Last month, McAfee himself
sold the rights to his life story
to Montreal-based Impact Future Media. But the Warner Bros. movie deal would appear to be a separate endeavor, and might not even involve McAfee. Davis didnt immediately respond to an emailed request for comment about whether McAfee is involved in the
Last Stand
production.
Regardless, Requa and Ficarr would seem to be an ideal choice for relaying
McAfees madcap tale
, as the pair previously wrote
Bad Santa
, as well as wrote and directed
I Love You Phillip Morris
.
McAfee is an information security expert who founded McAfee Associates in 1987, which pioneered the practice of distributing antivirus software as shareware. His company, later renamed Network Associates, and then simply known as McAfee, was
purchased by chipmaker Intel
in 2010 for $7.68 billion.
Before then, McAfee had settled into a life that by some accounts was a virtual retirement, but according to others perhaps not all that it seemed. Notably, McAfee drew the suspicion of local authorities, who admitted that they were at a loss to explain exactly what he was or wasnt doing in Belize, although it was suspected he might be selling drugs. An April 2012 police raid on McAfees compound turned up no drugs, but did recover 10 firearms, one of which was unlicensed, which earned McAfee a night in jail. Police confiscated the weapons, as well as 320 rounds of ammunition, reported Davis.
Subsequently, McAfee fled Belize for Guatemala after being sought for questioning by police about the Nov. 10 murder of his neighbor, fellow U.S. citizen Gregory Viant Faull, 52. McAfee
accused Belizean officials
of framing him for Faulls murder. The countrys prime minister denied those assertions and questioned McAfees sanity.
After fleeing overland and by boat, McAfee ultimately
arrived in Guatemala
, was arrested, and saw his request for asylum rejected. But instead of returning him to Belize -- and to be clear, Belize has issued no warrant for McAfees arrest -- officials deported him to a place of his choosing in the United States.
McAfee chose Miami
, and after his arrival promised to publish information relating to high-level corruption in the Belizean government.
Earlier this month, McAfee began publishing what he said would be a series of exposes, stemming from still-ongoing research being conducted by his network of paid spies and informants in Belize. Notably, McAfee claimed to have discovered that Belizean government officials were granting passports to members of the extremist group Hezbollah, who were then infiltrating the United States with the help of the Mexican Zetas criminal syndicate.
Interestingly, McAfee claimed to have uncovered that operation as part of a
revenge strategy
against the Belizean government, which included giving 75 laptops that hed installed with spyware -- and paid a team of four to remotely monitor around the clock -- to key telecommunications employees and government officials.
McAfee has since relocated to Portland, Ore., in part to work with artist Chad Essley on a graphic novel about his life,
reported

Willamette Week
. The work is set to be called
The Hinterland
.
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