Development since 2006
They’ve been trying to make this film for a long time… When I came in I pitched what I thought it should be: essentially a war story where the story is told from both sides and both sides can be empathised with – and that is the film that we made.
Stuart and I are always looking for challenges!” he laughs. “We are both very familiar with the track record of games to movies. I think the key is that we actually come from a generation of people who are games players. “I’m a film maker who started on the Atari and then went onto the Commodore 64 and the Amiga. So I possibly have a different sensibility to people who didn’t play games growing up.
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The gaming audience spends huge amounts of time in those worlds. They know them backwards and they have a unique perspective because not everyone does the same thing. So the challenge is to find a way to pull together those elements that means something to everyone. There’s a huge fanbase for this game but it would be wrong to assume they are all going to turn up. There needs to be a broader audience. I don’t think the film would be as good if you were filling it with in-jokes and storylines that assumed too much knowledge, he says.
