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SXSW Watch: 'Second Skin' Gets a Trailer
Filed under: Documentary », Independent », SXSW », Festival Reports », Fandom », Home Entertainment », Polls »
One of the more interesting-looking films in the SXSW lineup is Second Skin, directed by Juan Carlos Piñeiro Escoriaza. The film is a documentary about people who are utterly obsessed with the virtual worlds of Massively Multiplayer Online games (MMOs). The film follows several folks who spend all or most of their spare time (and perhaps even their time that's not really spare) immersed in virtual worlds in places like World of Warcraft, Everquest, Second Life and other MMOs. Firstshowing.net has the trailer up, and from watching it, it seems the filmmakers handle the subject matter without looking down on or making fun of these folks for whom virtual life is as important as real life.
It looks also like they examine both the dark and light sides of gaming. There's Kevin and Heather, who met online as a knight and a cleric slaying dragons on Norrath in Everquest, fell in love and then met in real life; then there's a guy on the trailer who talks about playing obsessively for 14-16 hours a day, to the point that his addiction to gaming was ruining his life and he became suicidal. I wonder if they'll delve at all into people using Second Life as a virtual space for sexual encounters and affairs (which personally, I find beyond creepy, but whatever gets you off, I guess). I'll be the first to admit that I don't get the whole appeal of virtual worlds and virtual identities; I can grok the concept that people get really into their video games, but the idea of not having much of a life outside of a virtual reality game puzzles the hell out of me.
Sony to Bring 'EverQuest' to the Big Screen?
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy », RumorMonger », Games and Game Movies »
I've never played around with any of these online role-playing games like City of Heroes or World of Warcraft, but the idea sounds pretty cool. Frankly, most of what I know about the phenomenon comes from the "Make Love, Not Warcraft" episode of South Park, which was pretty awesome. EverQuest, a 3-D massively multiplayer online role-playing fantasy game that has been around since 1999, is slated for a feature film adaptation according to Variety. IGN, who first picked up the scoop, reported that the film will probably be released in 2009 or 2010. Michael Gordon, one of the screenwriters on 300 and the upcoming To Live and Drive in L.A., will pen the script. Acting as producer will be Avi Arad, former Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Entertainment and former Chief Executive Officer of Marvel Studios. Arad produced the likes of Spider-man, Fantastic Four and Ghost Rider, for Marvel. His most recent non-Marvel production was Bratz, based on the popular line of fashion dolls. The game takes place in the mythical world of Norrath which is populated by humans, ogres, elves and animal/human hybrids. Players get to slay monsters, go on quests and acquire treasure, pretty much everything you need to get your game geek on. No word on what the EverQuest plot will be, but it's based on a pitch from Gordon and will feature seminal characters familiar to players.
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