This past weekend we got the chance to speak with Alison Lohman about her upcoming film Game, which is written/directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (the madmen behind Crank).
“I’m doing a movie now called Game with Gerard Butler. I get to ride a motorcycle. It’s like Sin City, it’s set in the future. It’s a sci-fi thriller about convicts who become the players in a video game, and the players are the ones who control them. And if they win 30 games, they are exonerated, and get out free. The prison system is overloaded so they have to find a way to fund it. This is set in the future and the healthcare system is collapsing, so they have to find another way… “
Butler’s character is on his 28th game and is eager to get back to his family.
“I play this revolutionary chick. She’s a vigilante, part of this underground group that is trying desperately to save the world from debaucherous. She’s an idealist. I help [Gerry], but he doesn’t know what is going on and I inform him that he’s in prison in the video game. I start shooting in two weeks in Albuquerque New Mexico. I just decided that I was going to do this about a week ago, so right now I’m just scrambling to learn my lines.”
The film will be shot for 55 days in and around Albuquerque from November 5 through February 5. Game will hit theaters in December 2008. Alison Lohman appears in Beowulf, which hits theaters on November 16th.
November 7th, 2007 at 12:52 am
I have never heard of this movie before. It sounds interesting. I just have to point out a tiny error in our article, you accidentally said that “Butler’s character is on his 28th game and is eager to get back to his family.” when it’s actually Lohman’s character. It’s a simple mistake, no biggie. Just thought I’d bring it up.
November 7th, 2007 at 1:30 am
Kyle,
In the interview, Lohman said that it was Butler’s character that is on his 28th game.
November 7th, 2007 at 8:59 am
This sounds a lot like The Running Man. Which I hate to admit I actually liked. I dig the video game angle better than a cheesy gameshow. And if Butler gets to kill like he did in 300 I smell big box office returns.
November 7th, 2007 at 10:25 am
Running Man is classic material
November 7th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
The only reason I want to see this = it’s from the directors of Crank, truly the craziest, most intense, psychotic piece of action filmmaking in the last 10 years. These guys are total nuts.
November 7th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
Is that Melbourne in the background?
November 8th, 2007 at 10:25 am
I wish I was starring in a movie with Gerard Butler. Lucky!!
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