Respected Film Directors Developing Games

Posted on March 29, 2005

A new article in Wired magazine offers a look at several film directors who are now working specifically on game projects. Wired says, "Films have long been grist for the gaming mill, from ET for the Atari 2600 to Enter the Matrix for Xbox. But until recently, these movie-based titles were mostly tie-ins and spinoffs. Now big-name directors - David Fincher, John Singleton, Ridley Scott, and David Lynch - are taking their ideas straight to videogame." The film directors in the article include John Singleton (Boyz N the Hood), George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead), John McTiernan (Die Hard), Bryan Singer (X-Men) and John Woo (The Killer). The article mentions that John Woo has even founded his own game studio. Woo is directing a game called ShadowClan from Tiger Hill Entertainment which will be out in Fall 2006.