If decades of TV and cinema have taught us anything, it’s that adapting the science fiction works of Philip K. Dick is difficult, but can deliver some of landmark moments of film. The next frontier seems to be video games, and Entertainment One’s studio Secret Location are taking Dick’s The Great C and turning it into a cinematic virtual reality narrative. It will premiere at the Venice Film Festival later this year, before coming to Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR.
Set in a post-apocalyptic world where the remains humanity are ruled over by the supercomputer known as The Great C, the nearby village is forced to send someone on a pilgramage each year to appease the machine. The story follows Clare who’s forced to leave the village and decide whether to accept society’s rules or fight against the world.
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Speaking of the choice of platform and technology, Ryan Andal, President and Co-Founder of Secret Location said, “Authors have long adhered to the ‘show, don’t tell’ technique. We’re hard-pressed to find a better way to ‘show’ a story than in VR – adapting Philip K. Dick’s The Great C only makes our ability to ‘show’ even stronger.”
Secret Location will be leaning on cinematic techniques for editing, composition and story structure, blending them with room scale VR, and characters and environments to engage with.
Source: Tsa