“It’s really wonderful that it has the meaning it does for people”.
Nintendo may have struck gold with its recent efforts to crack Hollywood, but back in the late ’80s, the notion of fusing the worlds of video games with movies was a totally alien one, as evidenced by notable box office bombs such as 1993’s Super Mario Bros. and 1994’s Double Dragon.
Before those came along, however, Nintendo tested the waters with a 1989 movie about video games called The Wizard. Penned by David Chisholm, directed by Todd Holland and bankrolled by Universal Pictures, the film was conceptualised by Universal’s Tom Pollack as a video game version of Tommy, the 1975 “rock opera” movie based on The Who album of the same name. Pollack pitched the idea to Nintendo of America’s marketing department, and the gaming giant was on board.
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“It’s really wonderful that it has the meaning it does for people”.
Nintendo may have struck gold with its recent efforts to crack Hollywood, but back in the late ’80s, the notion of fusing the worlds of video games with movies was a totally alien one, as evidenced by notable box office bombs such as 1993’s Super Mario Bros. and 1994’s Double Dragon.
Before those came along, however, Nintendo tested the waters with a 1989 movie about video games called The Wizard. Penned by David Chisholm, directed by Todd Holland and bankrolled by Universal Pictures, the film was conceptualised by Universal’s Tom Pollack as a video game version of Tommy, the 1975 “rock opera” movie based on The Who album of the same name. Pollack pitched the idea to Nintendo of America’s marketing department, and the gaming giant was on board.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
