Johnny Depp will play John McAfee, creator of the world’s first antivirus software, in the dark comedy “King of the Jungle,” TheWrap has learned.
Based on an article by Joshua Davis in Wired Magazine, “King of the Jungle” tells the story of how McAfee took the fortune he amassed from his successful software and fled the United States to Belize. A reporter for Wired flies south of the border for what he thinks will be a simple interview with McAfee, but instead gets pulled into the tycoon’s web of paranoia and violence.
IMR International will handle foreign sales at Cannes for the film, which is directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (“Whisky Tango Foxtrot”) from a script by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (“Ed Wood,” “People vs.