Really interesting stuff! And well reported on OddBlog, Xav.
You first report since July last year.
I liked these exchanges:
Crispin Boyer: So now you’ve got
Citizen Siege the film, which is due to come out in 2009? Is that still roughly the—?
Lorne: Yeah, we’re talking probably 2010.
Crispin: O.K. And it’ll come out simultaneously with the game—
Lorne: Actually, we plan on releasing the game early because there’s a synergy we haven’t yet to reveal, but there’s a synergy that’s really going to fuel both mediums.
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Crispin: So now that you’re working on
Citizen Siege, you’re basically in charge of the property, the story and everything, and then are you gonna outsource the game itself, are you still going to be involved in the game’s design, or are you going to outsource pretty much the game’s—?
Lorne: Well we’ve actually, yeah, there’s two games that are associated with it, we’ve designed them both, and we’re actually in talks right now about various stages of production, but what we’re doing is we’re just starting to grow now, up in the Bay area, the actual production facility, but that production facility will be overseeing the television production, the film production, and the game production, so it’s a real
multimedia studio at its core.