Indie Game: The Movie optioned as dramatic HBO series
Game makinꦐg documentary to be remade as half-hour show
The makers of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Indie Game: The Movie (IGTM, for cool people) are riding high from their 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:appearance at Sundance, following news that their game making documentary has been selected by HBO to be the inspiration for a half-hour television series. That doesn't mean it's actuallygoing to be made into a series♔, as much of the stuff HBO option😼s never makes it onto the screen, but we're still holding out hope that this one makes it to a pilot at least.
The show is being produced by Scott Rudin, who's mile-long list of producer credits include The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Social Network, No Country for Old Men, and Team America: World Police. Contrary to initial rumors, Rudin will not be developing IGTM as a comedy, but as a dramatic series - which makes way more sense
filmmakers James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot of BlinkWorks Media.Dꦡiscussing the project on their , the pair wrote: “The people involved, the network involved - all are, BY FAR, the best people possible to make this show...We are ecstatic about the possibilities of working with this team. All you need to do is look at the list of HBO series titles & Scott Rudin’s IMDB and you can see why we think this is a brilliant thing. We want to see this show happen. We want to watch this show.”
IGTM debuted at the Sundance Film Festival on January 19. The doc follows notable independent game developers as they attempt to break into the industry without going broke or insane in the process. It stars a slew of familiar faces including Braid's Jonathon Blow, Super Meat Boy's Team Meat, FEZ's Phil Fish, and Superbrothers: Sword and Sorc𓂃ery musician Jim Guthrie. See if you can put a few faces to the names in the official IGMT trailer:
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