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The season is longer, the budget is higher, and t is some A-list talent behind the camera-including BAFTA award-winning director Joe Wright and hot up-and-coming 10 Cloverfield Lane director Dan Trachtenberg.
Trachtenberg’s episode, “Playtest,” sees a backpacking American, Wyatt Russell, testing out a new gaming technology that puts the player in the middle of their own personal nightmare.
Trachtenberg spoke with Vanity Fair over the phone about the many video game influences on “Playtest,” and how Russell’s take on the character dramatically altered who we’re supposed to be rooting for.
Vanity Fair: If you were trapped in the video game of “Playtest,” what primal fear of yours would manifest?
T’s a shelf of video games that has some of my favorites in t.
I think a lot of gamers were pleasantly surprised to see how much the new HBO series Westworld is inspired by video games and the gaming aesthetic.
Obviously, your Black Mirror episode is all about overt gaming influences, but how do you think gaming will continue to creep into our film and TV? Yeah it’s going to continue to happen and I love it.
No one is comparing 10 Cloverfield Lane to a video game thing.
For Westworld to be so influenced by video games is amazing, and it’s only going to continue because video games have become so incredibly cinematic but also so profound.