TITLE
The Colossus and the Comedian
AUTHOR
Brian Ashcraft
PUBLICATION
Kotaku
YEAR
2007
ARTICLE TYPE
Article
FROM THE ARTICLE
Jeremy Roush let the game do the talking. Adam Sandler watched the plasma television as filmmaker Mike Binder looked on. They were demoing a video game for the Hollywood actor in hopes of convincing him to include it the upcoming Reign Over Me, co-starring Don Cheadle. In-game save posts were far from the action, and the graphics were last gen. If Sandler didn’t bite, the game was out. “One of the hard things about showing Shadow of the Colossus is that if you are not a real game player, your first glimpse of it is that it’s blocky,” Roush, an avid Kotaku reader, tells me. “You don’t see how much artistry that’s behind it because it’s not Pixar perfect.” So he turned up the music, the aspect ratio narrowed, and Sandler saw the feet of a Colossus for the first time. The music started to crescendo, and Roush gripped the DualShock he brought from home as the game’s hero Wander climbed the giant.
COMPANIES MENTIONED
Sony
GAMES MENTIONED
Shadow of the Colossus
PEOPLE MENTIONED
Jeremy Roush
Adam Sandler
PLATFORMS MENTIONED
PlayStation 2 [PS2]
NOTES
A discussion with Jeremy Roush, a producer on Reign Over Me, about the inclusion of Shadow of the Colossus in the film.