Movie firm Altitude Media Group has picked up a documentary that takes place completely contained in the world of Grand Theft Auto 5, and it’s referred to 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 chance to recreate Shakespeare’s Hamlet inside Rockstar Video games’ fifth Grand Theft Auto title. With the long run wanting grim and plenty of time on their arms, they embark on an journey that sees them dealing with griefers and studying in regards to the truths of life. You possibly can learn the total synopsis under:
“January 2021. The UK is in its third lockdown and all leisure venues stay closed. For theatre actors Sam and Mark, the long run appears to be like 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 once they stumble throughout a theater, they instantly have an thought to stage a full manufacturing of Hamlet throughout the recreation. This movie charts their ridiculous, hilarious and transferring journey as they battle violent griefers and uncover shocking 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 Pageant on March 10. It’s a pandemic-era story greater than three years within the making that Altitude will carry to UK and Irish theaters later in 2024.
“We’re extraordinarily proud and excited to be partnering with Pinny, Sam and the entire group on Grand Theft Hamlet and can’t watch for audiences to expertise this singular and masterful piece of machinima filmmaking,” Altitude Movie Gross sales Managing Director Mike Runagall stated. “Grand Theft Hamlet is like nothing you’ve seen earlier than.”
The COVID-19 lockdown impressed all types of creativity throughout gaming, and the GTA 5 neighborhood wasn’t even the primary to placed on an in-game theatrical manufacturing. Fallout 76 gamers, for instance, fashioned a bunch referred to as The Wasteland Theatre Firm, which noticed them pulling collectively to recreate traditional 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 mission may deal with on-line multiplayer are a thriller, however you’ll be able to guess followers will likely be fast to show it right into a sandbox playground with theatre and a lot extra.
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