Alex Winter: ‘Michael Winner was the most erudite sociopath I’ve ever met’ — SkimNews
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- Michael Winner was called "the most erudite sociopath I've ever met" by Alex Winter, who framed it as a compliment and recalled drinking in Brixton while filming Death Wish 3 in London at age 19.
- Alex Winter described the "hasty, greed-oriented rush into the AI space" and a "tech oligarch takeover" across business, politics and civic culture as what scares him most about the internet today.
- Bill & Ted 4 is wanted by both Winter and Keanu Reeves, with Winter saying the characters "don't exist without us" and explicitly opposing any reboot casting someone else as Bill.
- Keanu Reeves and Winter discussed performing Shakespeare together — specifically Measure for Measure — noting both have theatre backgrounds and studied Shakespeare.
- Ben 10 is where Winter met his wife, who was then running Cartoon Network studios; his children's favorite alien was Heatblast, a fire character.
- The Lost Boys — Winter said he would love another vampire film and praised Marko's staking death, calling it his most memorable on-screen demise.
- Elon Musk is the real person Winter would most like to "melvin" — or, as he grew up saying, "wedgie."
Why it matters: Winter built a post-acting second career as a tech documentary filmmaker covering Napster, the dark web, blockchain and YouTube, which gives his AI-alarm comments a different weight than a typical celebrity take. For Bill & Ted fans, his explicit opposition to a reboot is the clearest signal that any fourth installment will be Winter-Reeves-led or nothing. The Michael Winner quote will draw the clicks, but the AI remarks are the substantively fresh material.
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