 Belushi's friend John Landis, who directed the actor in the films "National Lampoon's Animal House" (1978) and "The Blues Brothers" (1980), refused to have his name incorporated into "Wired" and threatened to sue for invasion of privacy, causing the producers to label a generic name on the film director who appears in the film.As played by Jon Snyder, the director is an obvious lookalike of Landis during the "Blues Brothers" sequence, and in the scene where he is walking across the movie set, a helicopter can be heard in the background (a reference to the fatal helicopter accident that occurred when Landis filmed "").The film also depicts the director punching a coked-out Belushi in the face during the filming of "The Blues Brothers."