RED FACTION: ORIGINS - MEDIA BLVD. MAGAZINE: Andrew Kreisberg Interview
By Kenn Gold
Friday, 03 June 2011
Andrew Kreisberg wrote the screenplay for this weekend’s Syfy movie, Red Faction: Origins, based on an idea from THQ, creators of the popular video game. The story takes place between the previous video game, Guerilla, and the upcoming Armageddon and features Jake Mason, the son of Alec Mason, and father of Darius Mason, the respective leads in the two games. Andrew is also currently the co-executive producer of Warehouse 13, one of the most popular series on Syfy, and previously served in a similar role on Fringe and The Vampire Diaries. Andrew recently took the time to sit down with MediaBlvd for an exclusive interview in which he discussed the upcoming movie, and the challenges of developing a new entry, albeit in a different medium, for an existing franchise...
Brian J. Smith and Robert Patrick from Red Faction: Origins
... MediaBlvd> Is it difficult to lay the origin out enough that anyone who hasn’t played the game will understand it for the movie?
Andrew> Yeah, we tried a bunch of different ways to condense the first three games into a prologue, and I think we came up with a fairly clever way to do it; basically just setting up the idea that there is a colony on Mars, that it is several hundred years in the future, and that there had previously been a conflict between the marauders and the colonists, and that they had all been controlled by the Earth Defense Force which had subsequently been driven off the planet. Now that is all information from the previous video games and our movie picks up 25 years after that. So we give the audience a primer on what happened before, which you will have to watch to see. But once you are into the movie, we make it pretty clear what is going on and you see that the world itself is just so exciting and pretty straight forward. So new people will instantly get pulled in...
Red Faction: Origins premieres on Syfy Saturday, June 4, 2011 at 9/8C.
Cast includes Robert Patrick, Brian J. Smith, Tamzin Merchant, Kate Vernon, Devon Graye, Gareth David-Lloyd, Danielle Nicolet and Gordon Kennedy.
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