Things We Saw Today: The Short Film Adaptation of Papers, Please
Lucas Pope’s award-winning game, Papers, Please, has been adapted into a ten-minute short film that you can view on either YouTube (see above) or Steam. In the game, the player acts as a border patrol employee who must decide who to let into the country and who to reject. It’s a game which mimics the moral dilemmas, fears, and humanity of people living under totalitarian regimes.
Now, the game has been made into a film. Though the dialogue is delivered in Russian, subtitles are available in 22 different languages on the YouTube version. (via Polygon)
- Janaya Khan at The Root wrote a piercing piece about the very different public responses to the youth from Parkland who are protesting for gun control and the youth who protested and organized as part of the Movement for Black Lives.
- In an interview with Deadline, Star Wars: The Last Jedi visual effects supervisors Ben Morris and Mike Mulholland explained how they created Snoke for the film, and why they decided to go with CGI.
- SYFY Wire interviewed Dave Filoni about the most recent Star Wars Rebels episodes. Spoilers ahoy! But it’s a good convo.
- And speaking of spoilers, here’s a super-fun super-cut of all the fake-out deaths in the DC superhero films. Super, right? (via Nerdist)
- Of course Netflix made a movie about the yakuza that stars Jared Leto. Of course they did. (via The Independent)
- Do you live in or around San Francisco? For the 30th anniversary of My Neighbor Totoro!, Her Universe and the Japanese bookstore Kinokuniya USA have created a Studio Ghibli pop-up shop in San Francisco, CA. It’ll be open from February 24, 2018 to March 9, 2018.
That’s all I’ve got for today, TMSers! What’d you see out there in the wide world of geekdom?
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