MacGyver.
We kid you not. According to Daily Variety, a team of Hollywood creative types--including the masterminds behind MacGyver, Die Hard, Delta Force and, um, Grease--convened in secret last week to present possible terrorist attack scenarios to federal intelligence officials.
Among those participating in the working group were screenwriter Steven E. DeSouza (Die Hard), director Joseph Zito (Delta Force One, Missing in Action) and TV writer David Engelbach (MacGyver).
Also on hand were David Fincher (Fight Club), Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich), and the screenwriting team of Paul De Meo and Danny Bilson Randall (The Rocketeer).
And although they may have contributed to the discussion greatly, we're wondering just what the heck were directors Randall Kleiser (Grease) and Mary Lambert (The In Crowd) doing there.
Variety reports Army Brigadier General Kenneth Bergquist assembled the group, which is part of the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technology. The Hollywood committee met twice via teleconference with bigwigs at the Pentagon to brainstorm possible terror events and solutions.
The ICT was formed in 1999 to fuse Hollywood's capacity for creative thinking with the miltary's need to revolutionize its virtual-reality technology. The express purpose was to bring together screenwriters and CGI artists, computer scientists and videogame-makers to help the army develop new "immersive" simulations to better train its soldiers.
James Korris, ICT's creative director confirmed that meetings between the filmmakers and intelligence officials had taken place and that more were being planned, but could not provide information as to what was discussed. He did say however that the meetings were ongoing.
The Army's office of public affairs declined to comment.