Orange of the Week: Art-House Films Made into Video Games (Antichrist)

I’m totally game for this idea. Thanks to some digging on slashfilm.com’s part (read the entire low-down here), it appears that gamers will get to play a video game version of a Cannes film from a serious auteur. Yes folks, Lars von Trier‘s Antichrist will get the video console treatment. For those who are interested, the game picks up where Willem Dafoe‘s character finishes off – and all this time I thought the last frame of the film announced a certain doom for his character. If Lars is reading…I’d love to play The Idiots.

Slashfilm reports that “Eden, as the game will be called, will be a first-person thriller/adventure game that invites players to confront their fears. Willem Dafoe will reportedly reprise his role in voice-over, though the game will not replicate the film, picking up afterward instead.” 

The Orange of the Week goes to this idea of taking the other kinds of films and working on new story-lines. Art-house films and indie films never receive a remake treatment, so perhaps one day fans of films such as Blood Simple, The Thin Blue Line and All About My Mother will get to continue the obsession via the video-game route.