The challenge of the video game movie, as he sees it, is obvious, but worthy of interrogation through an attempt in making one. The same logic may apply to the recent news that he’ll be directing The Meg 2, starring Jason Statham and a giant shark. So that really helped.Īs for Tomb Raider, Wheatley’s tight-lipped on what’s drawing him to the sequel, but as he said about adapting an 80-year-old novel for Netflix known best for a 1940 Hitchcock adaptation, he likes a challenge that most people would turn down without a second thought. “When we, we actually got cardboard boxes, which were the same dimensions as the cubes from Minecraft, and then rebuilt the thing we built inside the warehouse. Wheatley calls Minecraft “the most user friendly 3D, CAD design” tool anyone can get their hands on, perfect for when you want to design sets early on, and bring your various department heads on scout tours, without spending loads of money. Yes, one of the premiere directors working today begins his pre-production work in the blocky sandbox.
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“And I designed it in Minecraft.” Brie Larson in Free Fire Photo: A24
“It’s effectively a Counter Strike game,” he notes. He considers his 2016 film Free Fire, the British crime shoot-’em-up starring Brie Larson and Armie Hammer, to be a kind of video game movie. Wheatley says the camerawork and 3D architecture of games, the unique language that sets the medium apart from cinema, has informed how he makes his movies. I also introduce people to it like an evil pusher.” “Now I still play games: I play Counter Strike and I’m playing the horrific Factorio at the moment, which seems to suck the fucking life out of me. I had Pong, hockey, light guns, and all that,” he says of his early days gaming. “We had a thing called a Binatone, and it basically had four buttons on it. But it was an obvious choice for Wheatley, who says he’s been playing games since he was eight or nine years old and only finds himself more and more entranced by the medium. The news came as a shock to his fans, who know him better for cult hits like Kill List, Sightseers, A Field in England, and the wicked J.G. The director of Netflix’s Rebecca signed on to make Tomb Raider 2 last fall, and while he tells Polygon that it’s “kind of in the mists of COVID at the moment in terms of what’s going on,” he still committed to making the film. Specifically, a sequel to 2018’s Tomb Raider.
That’s why Ben Wheatley wants to make a video game movie. Rebecca director hopes his movie trolls hard enough