Rafael Moreu ( – 2021) was an American screenwriter, best known for his work in horror and thrillers.
Early life
Moreu was born in Miami, Florida, to a family who had fled Cuba in the early 1960s. He was a graduate of New York University, where he studied film and met his future wife Kristin Ellingson, whom he married in 1989. For Hackers, he saw the film as more than just about computer hacking but something much larger: "In fact, to call hackers a counterculture makes it sound like they're a transitory thing; I think they're the next step in human evolution." He had been interested in hacking since the early 1980s. After the crackdown in the United States during 1989 and 1990, he decided to write a script about the subculture. For research, Moreu went to a meeting organized by the New York-based hacker magazine 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. There, he met Phiber Optik, a.k.a. Mark Abene, a 22-year-old hacker who spent most of 1994 in prison on hacking charges. The film eventually went into production in 1998 under the title Carrie 2: Say You're Sorry.
Death
Moreu died of COVID-19 in 2021. The CyberHub Trust, a British charity, established a cybersecurity scholarship in his honor.