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Alex (on the Napster movie): Yeah, it's my day-in, day-out life. Thankfully I like this kid because otherwise I'd kill myself. I've been knee-deep in this world for two years now. I was originally going to do at MTV which is where Shawn and I pitched it. I'm a huge music and huge technology person so it's the ultimate story that bridged both worlds for me so I just dove at it. It's almost like a journalistic exercise. I spent the first year just traveling around the country interviewing everybody from both sides of it. Then we were going to shoot it last year but then, because of reality TV I think, they kind of ditched the entire narrative division of MTV and it looked dead. I went and repitched it to MTV Films, the Paramount division and they picked it up. That means if it gets made, it will get a theatrical release. ( Source )  

Alex (on Shawn Fanning): I wanted Ryan Gosling when I first wrote it and now he'd be too old.
It's such an amazing story because this kid is an amazing anachronistic guy. He is a genius but he's not a geek. He's a regular good-looking guy who plays sports, listens to music and parties. But he also has a genius level IQ, the ability to code and build these visionary concepts. It really is a trip. ( Source )