Fortnite creator reveals how Avengers: Endgame directors and J.J. Abrams were pivotal in the shaping of the battle royale
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The co-creator of Fortnite has revea♔led the crucial role several filmmakers played in the shaping of the much beloved battle ro🦩yale video game.
Speaking to GamesRadar+ recently at the in St Andrews, Scotland, the former CCO of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Epic Games, Donald Mustard, discussed the ways both the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Russo Brothers (who helmed several Marvel movies including 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Avengers: Endgame) and J.J. Abrams (the director of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Star Wars: The Force Awakens and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Star Trek amongst others) helped bring his vision to life.
Initially unsure how he could capture his childhood dream of a world where film and TV characters from different universes could interact with each other authentically, Mustard reached out to his friend Abra🧸ms for some advice - and luckily for him, the director had many words of wisdom that had a direct impact on what would become Fortnite.
As he revealed to us: "Having Snake Eyes and Spider-Man and Darth Vader and Batman next to each other would be the ultimate 12-year-old me dream - so, tha🎃t's what I set out to make happen right from the start. But how do create a narrative framework and a conceit for that world? Ultimately, it’s this idea of the zero point and that zero point is all tꦰhese interconnected realities, and as characters move through those realities, they can authentically sit next to each other. You could have Spider-Man next to Batman in a way that is actually authentic and cool.
"So, I wa♛s laying that idea and that narrative down slowly. I'm very influenced by J.J. Abrams and kind of his approach to storytelling - and I was actually talking with him a lot about it at the time, we're pretty good friends. I was saying to him 'I kinda want to try this thing, how would you pace it and structure it' - he was giving me a lot of good advice on how to kind of string that stuff out."
The Russo Brothers meanwhile stepped in at a later date, after Fortnite had become a huge success and Mustard was looking at new directions to take it in. It turns out that meeting the directors sparked an idea for further ways to develop the game, with the trio working together on the first crossover event of its kind - 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:one ꦰwhich leꦺt gamers play as supervillain Thanos.
Mustard explained: "As Fortnite got more and more successful, it opened a lot of opportunities to be able to approach the people that own and control all these awesome diffe🍌rent characters and IPs, and present it to them, tell them the story in a way that made them feel comfortable with trusting their charact🍌ers with me and with us to kind of do this really cool stuff.
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"And it really started with how I met Joe and Anthony Russo🃏. The very first collaboration we ever di🍷d in Fortnite was with Thanos for Infinity War and that began with Joe and I meeting each other, talking to each other for many, many hours, and and as artists coming to a ‘wouldn't it be so cool if’. From there we built the Thanos integration which was amazing - and once people experienced that, that really opened the doors to all these possibilities."
For more from our interview with Mustard, here's what he had to say when reflecಌting on the game's $26 billion success.
Meanwhile for more games like Fortnite, be sure to check out our recommendations for the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best battle royale games.
Emily Murray is a former Entertainment Editor of GamesRadar+, once responsible for overseeing all the online content for Total Film and SFX magazine. Emily has previously worked for the BBC, Zavvi, UNILAD, Yahoo, Digital Spy and more. When Emily isn't writing about film and TV, she can be found cuddling💃 her cat on the sofa, likely bingeing New Girl for the millionth time (Nick Miller is the love of my life). You can also find her waxing lyrical about Christopher Nolan on a podcast dedicated to his filmography.