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Casting Call: Running in the Background: The True Story of John McAfee

John McAfee's ex-wife, Judy McAfee, had an instrumental role in helping her husband to launch McAfee. We've seen Sigourney Weaver play an intelligent high-powered role in Avatar...

Photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe,
Interview, July 1988

 

Legendary acto, Philip Seymour Hoffman bears a slight physical resemblance to McAfee's neighbor and alleged murder victim and certainly has the acting chops to play the part.

Photograph by Steven Klein,
Interview, February 1999

 

McAfee hired Allison Adonizio, a beautiful Harvard biologist, to research antibiotics in the jungles of Ambergris Caye. Emmy Rossum could easily emulate Adonizio's looks and brilliance.

Photograph by Kate Garner,
Interview, December 2000

 

Though he's now sober, Robert Downey, Jr. once had much more in common with John McAfee than just a rugged bad-boy look—and with a few hours in hair and makeup to recreate McAfee's sun-damaged skin, we think the resemblance will be uncanny.

Photograph by Karen Kuehn,
Interview, April 1989

McAfee's reportedly been running with a crowd of 20somethings, and Samantha Venegas is the one we've see him pictured with most often. Francia Raisa would be perfect for this role.

 

 

Belize's Prime Minister, Dean Barrow, recently (and fairly) called McAfee "bonkers." We can see Laurence Fishburne playing the frank, no-nonsense Belizean politician.

Photograph by Brigitte Lacombe,
Interview, January 1995