Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterDana Brunetti, the producer behind “The Social Network,” “Captain Phillips” and Netflix’s “House of Cards,” has optioned Martin Cooper’s memoir “Cutting the Cord” and plans to develop it as a feature film.Cooper, referred to as “the father of the cell phone,” is credited with inventing the first handheld cellular device at Motorola.
The story, which Brunetti envisions as “The Social Network” (David Fincher’s 2010 biographical drama about Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg) for the analog age, follows the cutthroat competition between industry titans that threatened to bury Cooper’s creation, as well as the cell phone’s future impact on the lives of everyone.“I’ve always been drawn to stories about amazing.
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