Cory Barlog & George Miller to Make Mad Max Game
Was Barlog looking to leave Sony in 2003!!?
See, the original was nothing like Gibson.
Former God of War developer, Cory Barlog, is to team up with Aussie movie director, George Miller to produce a video game based on Mad Max reports N'Gai Croal in Newsweek.
Barlog left Sony Santa Monica Studios in November under mysterious circumstances. He resurfaced in January, giving next to no hints in his blog as to his future such as:
"I am going to be doing some work in games as well as in film", and in the same entry, "I love making games though, so I don’t think I will be departing the game industry entirely for a long time."
The latest blog entry included the fact that he had "Just arrived in Australia last week where I will be staying for the month of March doing some work."
Yeah, you should have guessed he was working with George Miller on Mad Max!
Croal's interview is with Miller details how the director had been due to bring us the next MM movie - Fury Road, but was stopped due to the second Iraq War pushing the prices of insurance up and the value of the US dollar down. In a telling and refreshing piece of insight, Miller then explains:
Seeing as the second Iraq War (Operation Iraqi Freedom... stop laughing at the back) started in March 2003, either Miller delayed for quite a while, or Cory has been working on the movie tie-in since before God of War I was even though of!
Those movie and video game guys, uh? No grasp of time.
No date is set for what is also promised to be a simultaneous movie and video game release. But one thing is for sure, Mel Gibson won't have a lead role in either. Says Miller, "He's in his 50's now, it's too old".
Not like Mad Max itself - which first saw the light of day in 1979. Nothing like some new IP for the games industry, eh readers?
Source: Newsweek
Barlog left Sony Santa Monica Studios in November under mysterious circumstances. He resurfaced in January, giving next to no hints in his blog as to his future such as:
"I am going to be doing some work in games as well as in film", and in the same entry, "I love making games though, so I don’t think I will be departing the game industry entirely for a long time."
The latest blog entry included the fact that he had "Just arrived in Australia last week where I will be staying for the month of March doing some work."
Yeah, you should have guessed he was working with George Miller on Mad Max!
Croal's interview is with Miller details how the director had been due to bring us the next MM movie - Fury Road, but was stopped due to the second Iraq War pushing the prices of insurance up and the value of the US dollar down. In a telling and refreshing piece of insight, Miller then explains:
"And that started off on the path of trying to get together with Corey. Not handing it off to some third party game developer as we did on "Happy Feet," but to try to do it all as a piece, in the hope that we overcome that problem of making bad films from good games or vice versa."
Seeing as the second Iraq War (Operation Iraqi Freedom... stop laughing at the back) started in March 2003, either Miller delayed for quite a while, or Cory has been working on the movie tie-in since before God of War I was even though of!
Those movie and video game guys, uh? No grasp of time.
No date is set for what is also promised to be a simultaneous movie and video game release. But one thing is for sure, Mel Gibson won't have a lead role in either. Says Miller, "He's in his 50's now, it's too old".
Not like Mad Max itself - which first saw the light of day in 1979. Nothing like some new IP for the games industry, eh readers?
Source: Newsweek
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PreciousRoi 13 Mar 2008 20:47
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Miller wrote:
He's in his 50's now, it's too old.
A further complication might be that the old chap is barking mad.