![]() ![]() "I think that's something that's been in development for a while." Caruso told PM's Digital Hollywood recently. Welcome to a supposedly realistic story of digital paranoia, where you're always being watched, and the government can hear everything your saying-even when your cellphone's off.īut just how close are we to a world in which everything digital is so interconnected that somebody, or something, can turn technology on you so completely? "The tech in the movie that's just a couple years away is that there would be one information hub, one place where would all go," director D.J. In another, when Holloman wants to bring her Porsche to a stop during a high-speed chase, the voice takes over her car's cruise-control capabilities to push it upwards of 70 mph. In one early scene, when Shaw refuses to answer his phone, the voice somehow manages to call and text the cellphones of every other passenger in his car on a moving train. Whoever's behind the voice can control the traffic grid, see through every ATM machine and networked surveillance camera, call any cellphone, post a message on any electronic sign and even override the manual controls of cranes at construction sites. In this weekend's new thriller Eagle Eye, the lives of Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf) and Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monaghan) are hijacked by, well, a voice-an ominous and omniscient villainess that's equal parts Inspector Gadget and GPS voiceover.
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