Gaming goes to Hollywood
of Claude Gaillard
Publisher : Omake Books - October 20, 2020
Language : French
Number of pages : 304 pages
Video games at the cinema!
tron , Resident Evil , Doom , pixels , Double Dragon , Super Mario Bros. or more recently Tomb Raider , monster hunter And mortal kombat : these few works have created bridges between two worlds, two imaginations, two audiences sharing the planet Geek.
With Gaming Goes to Hollywood , explore the curious interactions between the 7th art and video games! From the first attempts in the 70s and 80s to recent Hollywood blockbusters, through animated TV series, Asian experiments, French essays and even B (or Z) series shamelessly exploiting the genre.
Richly illustrated, this large format hardcover book includes around twenty interviews including Paul WS Anderson, Milla Jovovitch, Michael Fassbender, Christophe Gans, Alicia Vikander, Takashi Miike, Uwe Boll, Duncan Jones...
STRONG POINTS
- 304 profusely illustrated color pages.
- Around twenty interviews with actors and directors, including:
-Milla Jovovich ( Monster Hunter , Resident Evil )
- Alicia Vikander ( Tomb Raider )
- Michael Fassbender ( Assassin's Creed )
- Christophe Gans ( Silent Hill )
- Paul W.S. Anderson ( Monster Hunter , Resident Evil )
- Duncan Jones ( Warcraft )
- Takashi Miike ( Yakuza )
- Uwe Boll ( Far Cry , Bloodrayne , House of the Dead , Alone in the Dark )
- A history of video game adaptations to the cinema.
- Chapters on Blockbusters ( Tomb Raider , Prince of Persia ...), the animated series of the 80's adapting video games or even the "Gameos", these intrusions of video games in cinema classics ( Jaws ...).
- A selective overview of Asian productions adapting video games or shot as a video game adventure ( Yakuza, Onee Chanbara , Avalon ...).
- A very visual chapter on around thirty famous actors who have participated in a video game (Bruce Willis in Apocalypse , Jean Reno in Onimusha 3 ...).
- And many other surprises ( Mirai Ninja the very first live adaptation of a video game on the big screen, interactive films, the saga Double Dragon ...).
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
- Claude GAILLARD is the author of several works on cinema and pop-culture with Omaké Books, such as back to the future , Cyborgs VS. Androids is Almost the same ! And Phew movies .
- Former editor-in-chief of Séries TV Magazine and Film(s) Magazine, John PRATE is a member of the editorial staff of GeekMagazine in which he publishes interviews on cinema, comics and TV series.
- Journalist specializing in video games and cinema, Olivier LEHMANN has collaborated with multiple magazines ( Kumite , Popcorn , Video Games Magazine ...).