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Lionhead's The Movies - Interview

Posted by simoniker on from the gonna-make-you-a-star-etc dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to a new Computer and Video Games-hosted interview about Lionhead's movie-making sim, The Movies. In this rare non-Molyneux discussion, project director Adrian Moore talks about this 2004-due multiplatform project, and its simple but enticing premise - "The concept of the game is really simple - you get to run your own movie studio. The game starts off in 1900 and goes through to 2010, and through that you have access to the technology of the particular time period."

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  1. Good luck to this game. by Blackwulf · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I really hope it lives up to what they say it does. I enjoy these type of games personally. One of my favorite games in the early 90's was Disney's Stunt Island, where you were a stunt pilot that starred in movies. Of course, that was the campaign portion of the game. There was also a "free mode" where you were able to create your OWN stunts, set scripts on objects, set the cameras, etc. And then, you could go into the editing room and piece together the movie with music, sound effects, and subtitles.

    There were some communities online that had 20+ minute movies made, and others even had full voice audio to go with the story. You could either view these in the game or via a standalone player.

  2. Limits on movies? by rgonsalves · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There should be a movie game/GTA crossover where you can gather hookers, strippers and any other girls and get them to make pr0n. You could get them hooked on smack (or spank), and make movies... from the years 1900 to 2010. What a bad idea, what was I thinking. I think that was basically in Vice City. Oops. -RPG

  3. Director's Chair by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I remember one of the first "multi-meeeeeja" titles I bought for the brand-spanking-new Windows 95 was "Stephen Spielberg's Director's Chair". It was a pretty good piece of software, for the time, though it (naturally) had FMV coming out it's ass. The whole idea was that Stephen Spielberg was guiding you to creating your own film.. you had to ration your time between preproduction/shooting/postproduction. Every so often Senor Spielbergo would pop up explaining how a good director manages all of this, giving 'insider tips' to making big Hollywood films. But as if that wasn't enough to entice you, it also had Quentin Tarantino and Jennifer Aniston (and Penn and Teller) starring in the "films" you made.

    I really enjoyed that, and I hope Molyneux is playing that game religiously, taking notes.