Movie firm Altitude Media Group has picked up a documentary that takes place solely contained in the world of Grand Theft Auto 5, and it’s known as Grand Theft Hamlet, per Deadline.
The in-game manufacturing will cowl the story of Sam Crane and Mark Oosterveen, two gamers with theatre backgrounds who took COVID-19 lockdowns within the UK as a possibility to recreate Shakespeare’s Hamlet inside Rockstar Video games’ fifth Grand Theft Auto title. With the longer term wanting grim and tons of time on their fingers, they embark on an journey that sees them dealing with griefers and studying in regards to the truths of life. You may learn the total synopsis beneath:
“January 2021. The UK is in its third lockdown and all leisure venues stay closed. For theatre actors Sam and Mark, the longer term seems to be bleak. Because the pandemic drags on, Mark — single and childless — is more and more socially remoted, whereas Sam panics about how he’s going to help his younger household. They spend their days within the on-line digital world of Grand Theft Auto and after they stumble throughout a theater, they out of the blue have an concept to stage a full manufacturing of Hamlet inside the recreation. This movie charts their ridiculous, hilarious and transferring journey as they battle violent griefers and uncover stunning truths about life, friendship and the enduring energy of Shakespeare.”
Written and directed by Crane together with Peter and Ben director Pinny Grylls, the movie will see its worldwide debut on the SXSW Movie Competition on March 10. It’s a pandemic-era story greater than three years within the making that Altitude will convey to UK and Irish theaters later in 2024.
“We’re extraordinarily proud and excited to be partnering with Pinny, Sam and the entire crew on Grand Theft Hamlet and can not look ahead to audiences to expertise this singular and masterful piece of machinima filmmaking,” Altitude Movie Gross sales Managing Director Mike Runagall mentioned. “Grand Theft Hamlet is like nothing you could have seen earlier than.”
The COVID-19 lockdown impressed all types of creativity throughout gaming, and the GTA 5 group wasn’t even the primary to placed on an in-game theatrical manufacturing. Fallout 76 gamers, for instance, fashioned a group known as The Wasteland Theatre Firm, which noticed them pulling collectively to recreate basic performs like A Midsummer Nights Dream.
GTA 5 first launched in 2013, and now, greater than a decade later, Rockstar is prepping to launch its follow-up, Grand Theft Auto 6. Particulars about how the challenge would possibly sort out on-line multiplayer are a thriller, however you possibly can guess followers might be fast to show it into a sandbox playground with theatre and a lot extra.
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