Ian Stevens, head of Vin Diesel’s Tigon Studio, has said that Hollywood only takes videogames seriously when there’s money to be made, with most of them viewing games as pointless toys until they start to realize that such a pointless industry is kicking their arses.
“There’s certainly no shortage of guys that look at games and see them as toys, and meaningless bullsh*t, and now look at revenue — and for their own survival’s sake have to care, and have to get involved,” reveals Stevens. “I think a lot of it has changed because we’re making so much more money than they are.”
Stevens also claims that Hollywood and the game industry “don’t speak the same language,” and that those in the movie biz simply don’t understand the creative process of videogames. That said, he also acknowledges that the games industry has a lot to catch up with in terms of story-telling, stating that “there’s such a depth and vocabulary involved in film-making that we’re just completely ignorant of.”
Quite funny indeed that Hollywood thinks it has any room to look down on other creative mediums, considering the movie industry is responsible for giving Michael Bay a job.
