Sci Fi Actioner ‘Gamer’ based upon emerging technology
Gerard Butler in Gamer
Mark Neveldine is about to release Crank 2: High Voltage, but are you aware he also has a very promising sci-fi actioner on the way titled Gamer?
Gamer stars Gerard Butler (of 300 fame) who plays Kable, a death row inmate who has become the champion of an online game called ‘Slayers’. The story takes place in a future where mind-control technology has become the norm and the game ‘Slayers’ provides humans the ability to control other humans on a mass scale. To those that run the game ‘Slayers’, Kable is nothing more than a human bot – a simulation. But to those who resist oppression, he is the key to overthrowing a high-tech system of societal slavery.
Gamer also stars Milo Ventimiglia, best known for his role as Peter Petrelli in NBC’s Heroes, as well as Michael C. Hall of the popular serial killer series, Dexter.
Although the tag line of ‘In the near future, you don’t live to play, you’ll play to live‘ might sound a bit chronic, Game may very well be more than just a brainless action movie. According to Mark Neveldine, who also co-wrote the story, the movie is a cerebral actioner. Gerard Butler has also been quoted as saying, “It’s layered.”
An action sequence in Game
Perhaps Gamer is even more than simply cerebral – it may even serve as an eye opener or wake up call for many. Whlist Gamer is first and foremost a sci-fi fiction story, what is most definitely interesting – and scary – about the core of the story is that it is material built upon research of actual real-life technology that is under development. In fact, not only under development, but also being developed with the intention of being used in the real world. Fish and RFID chips anyone?
“It’s a guy who needs to get back to his wife and his daughter, and he needs to fight the system. It’s a movie about control, about how we’re controlled, and more and more every day. I mean, this is happening. We really tend to do a lot of research, and have a lot of truth involved in our scripts,” said Neveldine, “and this is another situation where we studied and we’re reading about nanotechnology and we’re learning that we’ll soon all have IPs, just like computers. This is true, this is happening. The cameras are out, Big Brother is getting bigger. And we were a little scared about where this is going, and just wanted to make an ass-kicking film [about it].”
So get ready for a sci fi movie with a strong enough grounding in the modern world that it may both entertain and scare your socks off.
Fear of the future factor aside, with a star like Gerard Butler in the prime seat and with Neveldine co-directing (with fellow Crank famer Brian Taylor), and knowing that there is a lot of thought behind this movie, Gamer is looking promising indeed.
Gamer will be released in theatres September 4 2009.
February 17th, 2009 at 8:01 am
Gerard Butler’s characters are always so REAL that this just well may be a very scary film after reading this article.
I know about ten million Butler fans will see the movie, plus another ten million gamers. I just wonder how many people will read this artilce to know the seriousness of the plot. I hope
Mr. Neveldine gets this info out in large scale before the movie.
February 17th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Dude, I heard they can’t get this one edited down to an R rating and aren’t sure this is even going to make it to the can which is why you can’t find any info on it.
February 17th, 2009 at 11:39 am
It still sounds like a combo of The Running Man and Logan’s Run. It’s been done before. Not impressed.
March 26th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
They’ve already made it and it is awesome. The King vs Dexter
March 26th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Yes and the trailer has been leaked online. Watch it in here:
Italian Trailer for Game leaked online