Jeg skal ikke forsøge at forsvare Stay Alive, men det er værd at bemærke lidt baggrundsinfo om filmen. Synes selv den kunne have fungeret langt bedre, og desværre ender lidt kikset - måske med semi-kultpotentiale? - men det er jo også filmskabernes første gyserfilm (dog ingen undskyldning for at lave noget hø ;)). Selve CGI-spilsekvenserne er instrueret af spilproducenten American McGee, som udviklede
American McGee's Alice (der virkelig kan mærkes i spilsekvensernes æstetiske udtryk).
Der er heller ikke ligefrem noget i vejen med filmskabernes film- og spilsmag (se uddrag fra Interview herunder). Stay Alive ville sikkert have været meget værre uden vejledning fra spildesigneren CliffyB, Epic Games. Jeg havde nok selv hellere set, at de havde konsulteret Akira Yamaoka fra Team Silent Hill. :)
Iflg instruktøren William Brent Bell havde de planer om at udgive et spil sammen med filmen. Men det gik så i fisk.
Fra interview med filmens skabere på Horror.com (Writer/director William Brent Bell, and writer Matthew Peterman):
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Q: Are you both gamers yourselves?
Brent: Yeah, definitely. Been gamers our whole existence.
Q: What are some of your favorites?
Brent: Now, today, I think we've focused on everything from Madden football to Resident Evil, you know that series, and the Unreal series, and Fatal Frame was a really big inspiration for this movie.
Matt: God of War is a great game. Off Duty, we just love all kinds of games to be honest.
Q: If Stay Alive does become a video game, how does that work as far as you guys both having originated the screenplay?
Brent: We've already done a lot of development on the game. We have a really good design dock for the entire concept you know, dock for the entire game. We would write the game. We might probably would be creating it hand in hand with Cliff Blizenskigreen (sp). We've done this in the past you know for that script I mentioned, it's called Mercury. We wrote the concept out for that for Universal Interactive. We've written a couple of games. So hopefully we would be completely behind the whole game.
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http://www.horror.com/php/article-1164-1.html]Hele interviewet på Horror.com[/LINK]" target="">Hele interviewet på Horror.com.
Et interview mere:
http://videogames.yahoo.com/ongoingfeature?eid=447658&page=2]The Hollywood Byte #11: The Guys Behind Stay Alive[/LINK]" target="">The Hollywood Byte #11: The Guys Behind Stay Alive
http://stayalive.movies.go.com/]Stay Alive - The Official DVD Site[/LINK]" target="">Stay Alive - The Official DVD Site.
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