Post by Malcolm Belmont on Feb 8, 2014 7:57:24 GMT -8
Josh Trank is a great young director..While i am not exctually looking foward to Fantastic Four i do love his other big film Chronicle. Trank is planning to do a Shadow of the Colousses Movie after the Fantastic Four Reboot..here's what he had to say on that matter
I can’t talk about it, but I’ll say just one thing: I got Ico as soon as it came out, and I just loved that game so much. I knew immediately when I read that [game developer, Team Ico was] making a new video game that I wanted to go out and get it as soon as it came out, too, and it just blew me the [frick] away. A couple of years later, I remember seeing in Variety that it had been optioned. I must have been 22 or something, Chronicle and I just knew, ‘Oh my God, if somebody’s doing that, I have to somehow get in there and make sure it’s done the right way.’
Then he talked about video games could one day rival the storytelling feats inherent in movies?
games could one day rival the storytelling feats inherent in movies? "No, I don’t think so," said Trank. He continued, "I think that games are doing their own thing. I don’t think it’s a question of better, because it’s just a different experience. A lot of big sci-fi movies – and I won’t say any particular movies – are made with an awareness of the popularity of videogames, and therefore borrow so [many] of the design and visual ideas from those games. I’m like, “Man, that looks like Mass Effect. Those look like Mass Effect suits.” And that is not at all original or different. I also feel there’s a creative drought in Hollywood right now, because most of the young guys who would come in and be the next young, big directors are all in the videogame industry. I think if the game industry had been what it is now in the ’80s, a lot of those great Amblin [Entertainment] directors and people from that era would have been in games, too."
Finally he talked about what was his favourite video game.
I would say my favourite videogame of all time is Suikoden II on PlayStation. It was one of those games that made a huge epic promise on the box, and then it totally [frick]ing delivered in every way. The game box itself advertised on the front ‘108 totally unique characters’, and I swear to God there are 108 totally unique characters. The score in that game, and in each of the individual towns, is just the best music ever."
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I can’t talk about it, but I’ll say just one thing: I got Ico as soon as it came out, and I just loved that game so much. I knew immediately when I read that [game developer, Team Ico was] making a new video game that I wanted to go out and get it as soon as it came out, too, and it just blew me the [frick] away. A couple of years later, I remember seeing in Variety that it had been optioned. I must have been 22 or something, Chronicle and I just knew, ‘Oh my God, if somebody’s doing that, I have to somehow get in there and make sure it’s done the right way.’
Then he talked about video games could one day rival the storytelling feats inherent in movies?
games could one day rival the storytelling feats inherent in movies? "No, I don’t think so," said Trank. He continued, "I think that games are doing their own thing. I don’t think it’s a question of better, because it’s just a different experience. A lot of big sci-fi movies – and I won’t say any particular movies – are made with an awareness of the popularity of videogames, and therefore borrow so [many] of the design and visual ideas from those games. I’m like, “Man, that looks like Mass Effect. Those look like Mass Effect suits.” And that is not at all original or different. I also feel there’s a creative drought in Hollywood right now, because most of the young guys who would come in and be the next young, big directors are all in the videogame industry. I think if the game industry had been what it is now in the ’80s, a lot of those great Amblin [Entertainment] directors and people from that era would have been in games, too."
Finally he talked about what was his favourite video game.
I would say my favourite videogame of all time is Suikoden II on PlayStation. It was one of those games that made a huge epic promise on the box, and then it totally [frick]ing delivered in every way. The game box itself advertised on the front ‘108 totally unique characters’, and I swear to God there are 108 totally unique characters. The score in that game, and in each of the individual towns, is just the best music ever."
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