Silent Hill scribe is a gaming geek

by Christopher Grant on Apr 11th 2006 11:00PM

FiringSquad has an interview with Roger Avary, the Academy Award winning screenwriter of Pulp Fiction and the upcoming Silent Hill movie. Like his friend Christophe Gans, the film's director, Avary is a gaming nerd. How nerdy? This nerdy: "I collect and restore vintage Atari XY monitor games like Lunar Lander and Battlezone -- only vector, only Atari."

He talks about the collaboration with Gans, his respect for the source material, his similarities with Uwe Boll (they both like hookers and blow!), and his future gaming/movie plans. "I'm currently adapting a game into a script for myself to direct. I'm not talking about it yet, but it's for Atari -- so you can imagine that it's like a dream for me." What a nerd!

Sounds like Sony got themselves a perfect team. This guy is so awesome!

[Thanks, John]

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Reader Comments (11)

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And lets not forget when he demanded recognition for his supposed creation of a product which most people would instead disavow.

Who doesn't like hookers that blow?

ZING!!!!

Didn't you guys do this last week?

Ignore my last comment. Too early in the morning.

Unfortunately he has a G3/G4 PowerMac in the shot. Only top people have PowerMac G5. So he's almost there ;)

True, jay, true... but it's probably a couple years old. Considering he's a gaming geek, he probably has a Intel iMac running HL2 in XP, waiting on the x86 desktop line to debut...

I have a hetero-nerd crush on Roger Avary.

I can understand his concern regarding the built up of this film. It really does feel like the future of G2M adpatation rests on this film. Anyway you look at it, no one will doubt that this is probably the best game movie to date.