3/2/2024 0 Comments Zak pennBut it was the most intense five weeks I’ve ever endured.” “People were basically feeding me food and oxygen and checking that I was OK, and I was sleeping here and there. But I didn’t just think, ‘I’ll give it a go.’ If you’re gonna bite it off you might as well take a big bite.” He had a development system stationed at home so he could implement ideas throughout the night. Warshaw was excited by the challenge, he says now, adding that he also decided to try something original and innovative. Whereas he’d had 10 months on Raiders, due to late negotiations and Atari’s determination to get the game out for Christmas, Warshaw was given just five weeks to make it. Steven Spielberg had chosen him to make the Raiders of the Lost Ark tie-in, which hit big, and the director then asked him to follow suit with ET. In 1982, Atari were kings of that industry, and 25-year-old Howard Scott Warshaw was the company’s rock star. “Why do people want to believe this specific version of this story? Why did it need to be that the game was buried? Is it that we naturally are storytellers, and it sounds better that it was because it destroyed the video game industry?” “I like exploring how a story gets forced on to the reality,” he says, on the phone from LA. Penn is fascinated by folklore, and wanted to explore why the supposed ET dump had captured imaginations for three decades. Zak Penn, the writer of many Marvel films including The Incredible Hulk and X-Men: The Last Stand and some tie-in games, was hired to direct the documentary, Atari: Game Over. In April 2014, a documentary crew turned up to excavate the site and dig up the truth.
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