Heavy Rain Man - "We Go to Hollywood Regularly"
There are three kinds of people in Hollywood when it comes to games...
Hollywood is fast having to deal with video games more seriously and carefully as the old executives who used our medium as code for 'teen' make way for those grown-up teens. David Cage of Heavy Rain developer Quantic Dream has seen this in action and reports back from the frontline.
Speaking at gamescom he says that rather than fearing or even wanting to be part of the movie machine, "We go to Hollywood on a very regular basis. "We talk to actors and we talk to directors. What we discovered in Hollywood is that there are three categories of people." He explains how these break down:
"The first category are the people who don't give a shit about games, but that's less and less people", he says gladly.
"The second category are the people who are saying that games are great - they've heard about Halo and the amount of money that made in a weekend, and that sounds like a very exciting thing. 'How much money do you have?' they ask. And usually that's when we stop the dialogue - money's part of it, but it shouldn't be the main motivation, because otherwise we know the collaboration's going to fail."
And finally, the growing wave... the hope for the future:
"The third category are the people who are generally interested - they understand that this is something new, something they've never done before and something that has incredible potential in the future to express different types of emotions in a different way. These people are adventurers, and Ellen (Page, star of Quantic's new game) is one of them. I was really fortunate in my career, because with Omikron I worked with David Bowie and this worked like that."
Source: Eurogamer
Speaking at gamescom he says that rather than fearing or even wanting to be part of the movie machine, "We go to Hollywood on a very regular basis. "We talk to actors and we talk to directors. What we discovered in Hollywood is that there are three categories of people." He explains how these break down:
"The first category are the people who don't give a shit about games, but that's less and less people", he says gladly.
"The second category are the people who are saying that games are great - they've heard about Halo and the amount of money that made in a weekend, and that sounds like a very exciting thing. 'How much money do you have?' they ask. And usually that's when we stop the dialogue - money's part of it, but it shouldn't be the main motivation, because otherwise we know the collaboration's going to fail."
And finally, the growing wave... the hope for the future:
"The third category are the people who are generally interested - they understand that this is something new, something they've never done before and something that has incredible potential in the future to express different types of emotions in a different way. These people are adventurers, and Ellen (Page, star of Quantic's new game) is one of them. I was really fortunate in my career, because with Omikron I worked with David Bowie and this worked like that."
Source: Eurogamer
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