At present, the movie that has received a double harvest at the box office in the world is undoubtedly the Runaway Player with many Easter eggs, and the protagonist played by Little Ryan Reynolds is an NPC (non-player character) in a large video game.
In fact, many big stars have actually starred in popular games, especially with the blessing of increasingly mature technology such as motion capture - of course, they are not background characters, but the main selling point of the game.
Remember the mid-2019 gamer extravaganza E3 show, Where Keanu Reeves made an unexpected appearance on the stage of Cyberpunk 2077. His portrayal of Johnny Silver Hand in the game, with his cool, handsome face, transports people back to the days of The Matrix.
In fact, there has always been a practice of working with filmmakers in the gaming world. Back in the 1980s, the red and white machine era, the classic "Contra", the two protagonists of the prototype is the hottest action stars of the time, Stallone and Schwarzenegger. However, due to technology, we can only find some connections by carefully searching for the body of the game character.
The advent of CGI technology has made it possible for filmmakers to actually star in games. For example, in the 2001 Japanese game "Ghost Warrior", the protagonist Akira Samasuke is played by Takeshi Kaneshiro. In the sequel, the game borrowed the image of the late actor Yusaku Matsuda, and in the third part, it was joined by Jean Renault, a Tough French man.
Takeshi Kaneshiro and Jean Renault,
Japan, where the game industry is developed, has a tradition of linkage between games and movies. The "Renwang" series, Masaki Ichimura, Takei, Haruhi, Naoto Takeaka and other actors have participated; Japan's "eternal male god" Kimura Takuya is also the protagonist of the game "Eye of Judgment: The Last Word of death"; the gangster-themed game "Rulong" series, which not only attracts a number of well-known Japanese AV actresses (which has also become one of the features of the series), but also has big names such as Oguri Shun, Kitano Takeshi, and Fujiwara Ryuya ("Rulong 6"), comparable to the cinema blockbuster.
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Of course, it is also increasingly common for European and American film and television circles to get involved in games. Call of Duty 11: Advanced Warfare was made big boss by Kevin Spacey, and the villain of Far Cry 6 was "Uncle Fried Chicken" Giancaro Esposito; Cameron Monaghan, who starred in shows such as Shameless and Gotham, played the main character Carl Kestis in the video game Star Wars: Falling Order, for which he performed six months of motion capture; And The Walking Dead's Sean actor Joe Boenser also dabbled in the game, first in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. He became an actionable character and later starred as the main villain of the Ghost Recon series in motion capture.
Kevin Spacey in Call of Duty 11: Advanced Warfare.
The "Death Stranding" released in 2019 is comparable to the "Hollywood blockbuster" of the Japanese "Like a Dragon" series, the "crossbow brother" Norman Ridus in "The Walking Dead", "Uncle Max Mikkelson", the French goddess Leia Saidu, and even the big director Gilmour Del Toro, etc. have joined, and the game screen is also full of film texture.
Of course, there are also shadow people who break the wall game circle in another form. For example, the aforementioned "Ghost Warrior 3", its trailer found Zhen Zidan as a martial arts instructor, and veteran game fans may also recognize that the voice of the Emperor Enhill in the popular video game "The Witcher 3" is The Lannister's "big boss" Charles Dans, Duke of Tywin in "Game of Thrones"- both of them are not angry and cold and terrible big guys.
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