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Non-Gaming Filmmakers Are “Disrespectful”

Non-Gaming Filmmakers Are “Disrespectful”

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Paul W.S. Anderson, best-known to gamers as the director of Resident Evil: Afterlife, has recently said in an interview that he finds it “disrespectful” when filmmakers do not play the games on which they base movies. He cites Prince of Persia filmmaker Mike Newell as an example, saying, “That’s like adapting a book without reading the book or adapting a stage play and never seeing the stage play.” He then goes on to say, “[I]t’s disrespectful to the medium, and it’s disrespectful to the original source material, and ultimately, it doesn’t make the best movie.”

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