Unabomber Film Director on the ‘Madness’ of Ted Kaczynski, Rebuilding His Cabin
Will Thorne Staff WriterThe story of Ted Kaczynski, better known to many as the Unabomber, has played out on-screen several times since his 1996 arrest following the most expensive FBI manhunt in bureau history.However, the former math prodigy-turned-terrorist’s years of isolation living in a small cabin in the Montana wilderness have never been tackled with the commitment to detail and accuracy on display in “Ted K,” a new feature from Tony Stone (“Peter and the Farm”), which stars Sharlto Copley (“District 9”) as Kaczynski.Variety caught up with Stone ahead of the film’s debut in the Panorama section of this year’s Berlinale to talk about throwing conventional biopic tropes out the window, and his hopes for a potential theatrical