Movie About Notorious Hacker Inspires a Tangle of Suits and Subplots

This San Francisco Chronicle report covers the legal and creative disputes surrounding Miramax’s film Takedown, based on the Shimomura/Markoff book, including objections from Kevin Mitnick and from journalist Jonathan Littman, author of the rival account The Fugitive Game.

The article details allegations that the film misrepresented events and that its production drew on material without proper permission, part of a broader controversy over whose version of the Mitnick story would reach audiences first.