'The Book Of Eli' Video Game Created By Script Writers
It came as no surprise when I learned that Gary Whitta, who wrote the screenplay — and I use the term generously — for the Hughes brothers’ postapocalyptic dud The Book of Eli, has a background in videogames. An Englishman, born in 1972, Whitta was one of the founders of PC Gamer magazine and also served as its editor-in-chief. In addition to writing scripts for shows like Star Trek: Voyager, he has been a consultant on numerous game franchises and, according to his Wikipedia entry, is best known as a writer on games like Duke Nukem Forever, Prey, and Gears of War. I guess I understand why videogames need “writers.” In fact, I have no doubt that whatever creative input Whitta contributed to those games, it may well exceed the level of artistry at work in his script for The Book of Eli, which is basically a videogame concept — lone warrior in sunglasses wanders futuristic wasteland recycled from a zillion other films, fighting off stick-figure hooligans along the way — that never really springs to life on screen.
What I had no idea of, until a press release that literally arrived an hour ago, is that videogame writing has now attained such prominence and prestige that it merits its own award…from the Writers Guild! The WGA nominations for Best Videogame Writing have just been announced: They include Assassin’s Creed I (story by Corey May; script by May, Joshua Rubin, and Jeffry Yohalem), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (script by Marc Guggenheim), and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (written by Amy Henning). This might be an easy thing to mock, except that it really does make sense. Why shouldn’t we honor the creators of videogame stories as writers in an entertainment universe where more and more credible Hollywood screenwriters are drawing their aesthetic inspiration from those very same games? And, of course, the standards are shifting even as we speak. Evaluated as a traditional Hollywood screenplay, Avatar, as I have argued on several occasions, is thin, derivative, serviceable, and vaporous. But taken in a different context, as a glorified act of videogame creation, it might well seem downright visionary. READ MORE>>
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