What a joke movie!
They have been tracing yourcall since day one!
Your phone number IS your IP address!
They know everything about you and where you have been, who you talk to everything.
Even WHAT you talk about!
The best parts of the DVD version of this clunker are the documentaries in the Bonus section explaining the technology and philosophy behind cell phones and their ever increasing presence in our lives.
shareWould Cellular had been better received had Larry Cohen’s decidedly more bitter and cynical screenplay had been used instead of Chris Morgan’s more straightforward one?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_(film)#Production
https://misantropey.com/2015/04/28/larry-cohen-collection-cellular/
https://obsessivemovienerd.com/2012/06/13/the-cohen-case-files-cellular-2004/
http://www.imsdb.com/Movie%20Scripts/Cellular%20Script.html
https://moviechat.org/tt0337921/Cellular/58c7f3862214d80b5cec83c7/Basinger-iiiiis-aaawful-in-this?page=2
Writer of "Cellular" has passed away...
http://forum.earwolf.com/topic/60167-writer-of-cellular-has-passed-away/
http://forum.earwolf.com/topic/59133-episode-205-cellular-w-ike-barinholtz-erin-gibson/?do=findComment&comment=292952share
e: the idea that Kim Basinger or her husband would be involved in the crime and yet they turned out to be totally innocent, the original script did call for Kim's character to be involved.
Larry Cohen, screenwriter of the 2002 thriller film Phone Booth, conceived of Cellular while working for Sony Pictures. It followed a 30- or 40-year-old man named Theo Novak who obtains a call from a woman named Lenore, who tells him that she and her husband have been abducted in a safehouse by a group of bank robbers. It is then revealed that Novak is an art thief who becomes wracked with guilt after unsuccessfully rescuing a friend from committing suicide in the past; he agrees to make a detour from a criminal undertaking and rescue Lenore. During the rescue Novak is unsuccessful, but later discovers a conspiracy involving Lenore and her accomplices over another crime they are involved with—ultimately, Novak gains the upper hand, killing Lenore and her accomplices and obtains their loot in the process, which leaves him therefore a wealthy man.
Fast & Furious writer Chris Morgan was brought on by Dean Devlin to rewrite the script. Morgan wanted to tell a story of a normal person who does something heroic, but he also wanted to incorporate humor, specifically humor similar to that in Indiana Jones.
"I'm a big fan of situational humor and I feel like comedy plays best when it's the right thing at the right time and not just somebody trying to make a joke. For example, in Raiders of the Lost Ark when Indiana Jones is faced with fighting the swordsman and he just pulls out a gun and shoots him. That’s not really a joke, but it got a huge laugh. That's the kind of humor we tried to work."
Also, re: LORD OF THE RINGS, Return of the King came out in December of 2003 and won Best Picture a couple of months later. Fellowship Of The Ring came out in 2001.