{"id":2581,"date":"2012-05-25T16:09:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T16:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/?p=2581"},"modified":"2012-05-25T16:09:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T16:09:01","slug":"privateer-2-the-darkening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2012\/05\/25\/privateer-2-the-darkening\/","title":{"rendered":"Privateer 2: The Darkening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 15px 15px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0117391\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/images\/673755-privateer2_large1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>This is a work I did long before there was much of an (accessible) internet on which to discuss it, and it&#8217;s a hoot to find now that the bits of it I liked best, which were inaccessible to me for a long time, are now on the Web where I can get at them. (Along with everybody else.)<\/p>\n<p>Erin Roberts at Electronic Arts brought me on board to help develop the story and do the screenplay for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0117391\/\" target=\"_blank\">P2:TD<\/a> in 1995, and to this date it holds the record for the largest piece of screen work I&#8217;ve ever done &#8212; more than three hundred pages of screenplay, counting all the alternate endings and side-branchings of the story. It was a very early attempt at interactive film, with healthy doses of live-action material interspersed amid the gameplay. This being the reason that until now I&#8217;ve seen so little of the filmed material: I kept screwing up the gameplay and couldn&#8217;t advance.<\/p>\n<p>What astonishes me now, though, is the cast. You can see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=il4RBK5qAO0\" target=\"_blank\">the credits sequence<\/a> here &#8212; and if you now tried to cast a film with all those Names in it, you&#8217;d be implying a very serious budget indeed. The marvelous thing is that they were all apparently quite excited to get involved with what was then a most unusual project. (Though probably not half as excited as I was to find out they were getting involved with it. I mentioned to Erin at one point that I had developed the beer-related religion that appears at one point with Brian Blessed in mind as its preferred local cleric&#8230; and was completely knocked flat when I found out that they&#8217;d actually cast him. That was the way things kept going all that while: it was a magic time for me, even if the writing work meant that I sometimes had to spend a couple of weeks at a time away from home, shut up working in a hotel in Slough and missing Peter like crazy.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;When we were down at Warpcon in Cork in January of this year, we ran into <a href=\"http:\/\/gunnarroxen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">fellow writer Gunnar Roxen<\/a>, and while chatting with him, P2:TD came up in passing. So I was delighted just now to find that <a href=\"http:\/\/gunnarroxen.com\/2012\/02\/diane-duane-and-privateer-2-the-darkening\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gunnar&#8217;s posted background and links to some of the cinematic material from the game <\/a>to YouTube (as have various others: normally they seem to come up in the YouTube sidebar, for those who&#8217;re interested in investigating further).\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V1jkfOUN7tg\" target=\"_blank\">The teaser to the game is here<\/a>: and here&#8217;s a <a href=\" http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL103704986C9A73FA\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube playlist of some of the filmed sections that Gunnar posted up. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a work I did long before there was much of an (accessible) internet on which to discuss it, and it&#8217;s a hoot to find now that the bits&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[72,33,37,70],"tags":[243,244,407,408,439,544],"class_list":["post-2581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-and-tv","category-games","category-home-life","category-writing","tag-games-2","tag-gaming","tag-privateer","tag-privateer-2","tag-screenwriting","tag-writing-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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