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Andrew Niccol
Al Pacino as Viktor Taransky creating synthetic actress Simone (Photo: Darren Michaels) Email to friend
Andrew Niccol says he sets his films about five minutes in the future, and what a future it's been. "Gattaca" and the quest for genetically-modified perfection, "The Truman Show," exploring a twisted conspiracy against one man for the whole world's entertainment. And now Niccol's latest film "Simone," where a computer-generated starlet -- think Madonna mixed with Julia Roberts and Princess Di -- becomes everyone's idol.
What Niccol says about our obsession with celebrity, about the culture and the future of entertainment, rips at the American Dream Machine, at Hollywood and who we are. It's a soft science fiction. What to watch out for as we watch and watch and watch.
