In Toys (1992), the villain's scheme is this: put children in front of video game controllers and use them to pilot small combat drones targeting real people, without telling the kids it is real. The U.S. Army thought that was a great idea too. The Predator drone flew for the first time in 1994. Two years after this movie came out. It was armed with missiles in 1999 and used in combat in 2001. Today the U.S. military operates robots using actual Xbox controllers.
Barry Levinson wrote this script in 1979 and spent 13 years trying to get it made. Every studio said they did not understand what it was. It opened to almost no one.
People on Backlot are watching it this month and it is worth revisiting. The silly Robin Williams movie was the serious warning the whole time.
Available to rent on Amazon, Apple TV, and Fandango.
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