Great actors like Willem Dafoe and Ellen Page and Samuel L. Jackson will go and do a videogame, because they understand that storytelling isn't just necessarily about filmmaking.
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Once we start seeing video games that have more memorable characters, you'll see better movie adaptations.
More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.
In the past, a lot of films based on video games think that the audience wants to experience what it's like to play the game, and that's absolutely not the case.
The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.
And because performing for a game involves real acting. The way they create a game is very similar now to how they create a film. I've always wanted to stretch my acting skills, and the timing being what it is, I couldn't say no.
Actors are actors, and there should be a complete fluidity for anyone to play anything.
Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg are men at the top of their game, and Jackson especially is going to change the nature of film-making.
While films are a very visual and emotional artistic medium, video games take it one step further into the realm of a unique personal experience.
I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.
Because videogames are so inherently influenced by movies, to take a movie and literally create a videogame out of it, you're immediately setting limitations and expectations on what that game can be.