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PotC Director Gets Game

[Mar 10, 2008, 09:04 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

'Pirates of the Caribbean' director seeks video game success on the Los Angeles Times features a Q&A with Gore Verbinski, director of the Pirates of the Caribbean movie trilogy, who is working on a video game. This is in spite of having just recently resumed playing games after allowing them to take a back seat to his film career. There are no specifics about his project, but between his background and his time away from this pastime he offers an interesting perspective on storytelling:

I'm also interested in anti-narrative. The initial response is that gaming needs good writing. I've heard that. They need screenwriters. Well, hold on a second. Before you jump to that conclusion, I don't want to impose cinema's narrative onto a completely different medium. I think that's naive. The fact that the player is also the audience means you shouldn't be imposing a scenario where the audience is passive. Don't put those rules onto gaming. So out of that came in my mind new forms of narrative. I said, "Well, wait a minute, what if there is zero narrative?"

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Mar 11, 2008, 00:07

L0cky

You're right. Does it matter? Kinda. You do know ONN is a spoof right?

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Comment [quote="L0cky"Mar 11, 2008, 00:07]q[You're right. Does it matter?]q Kinda. You do know ONN is a spoof right? ;P [/quote]

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