Screen Play
April 10
Exploring the creative collaborations and crossover between games and other screen mediums.
The first wave of key international speakers:
- Story Kitchen co-founders Dmitri M Johnson and Mike Goldberg will open the event with a keynote discussion on connecting the worlds of games, film, and television. Story Kitchen is one of the production companies behind the blockbuster adaptation of SEGA’s SONIC THE HEDGEHOG -now a $1bn film franchise- and is also working on bringing forward new adaptations of Square Enix’s JUST CAUSE for Universal, Reikon’s RUINER for Universal, SEGA’s 90s classics, STREETS OF RAGE for Lionsgate and TOEJAM & EARL for Amazon MGM Studios as well as Hazelight’s ‘Game of the Year’, IT TAKES TWO, for Amazon MGM Studios. Additionally, Story Kitchen has a Television first-look deal at Amazon MGM Studios as well as an Animated Film first-look deal at DreamWorks Animation. Joining Story Kitchen is Crystal Dynamics. The conversation will be moderated by leading entertainment lawyer Simon Pulman of New York-based Pryor Cashman.
- Amanda Kruse, Head of Business Development at new label Big Fan Games, part of Devolver Digital, will lead a panel that discusses how developers can successfully adapt entertainment IPs into interactive experiences. Other panellists include Cyrille Imbert, CEO of Dotemu, which has worked on a number of acclaimed game revivals including STREETS OF RAGE 4 and TMNT: SHREDDER’S REVENGE.
Screen Play takes place on Thursday 10 April. London Games Festival is partnering with the British Film Institute as an official partner for the conference – the BFI’s Southbank venue will host Screen Play in its prestigious NFT1 auditorium.
Tickets are now on sale via festival.games.london
Last year included:
- A fireside chat with Emmy-nominated Ubisoft Film & TV Paris managing director Helene Juguet on establishing an entertainment label within a games publisher
- Insights from Academy Award-nominated Jonathan Nolan (Westworld, Interstellar), showrunner Gand game director Todd Howard (Bethesda) on how the Fallout game series has been adapted for Amazon Prime’s imminent new streaming TV series
- Discussions on worldbuilding IP universes that work across different media with input from experts including Kristian Segerstrale (Super Evil Mega Corp) and Eugene Evans (Wizards of the Coast)
- Baldur’s Gate 3’s Jennifer English (actor, ‘Shadowheart’) and Aliona Baranova (performance director) on why performing for video games is ‘the Olympics of acting’
- A case study on working across animation and games by French studio Bobbypills which adapted Blood Dragon into an acclaimed animation series for Netflix & Ubisoft and is now working on Motion Twin’s indie mega-hit Dead Cells franchise – both animated spin-offs and games
More information to follow.
