While many players are eagerly awaiting the arrival of Grand Theft Auto 6there is still plenty of activity surrounding the current version of the mega-blockbuster franchise. Fans are still role-playing on private servers, goofing around in the game’s online mode or, in the case of two filmmakers, directing a film adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays. Grand Theft Hamlet Co-directors are the married couple Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane. The film was shot entirely indoors Grand Theft Auto
The two directors of Grand Theft Hamlet played unemployed actors GTA Online together during the UK lockdown. After the usual amount of shooting and antics, the two found a sense in the game and decided to stage a performance of Shakespare hamlet in the game. The inherent difficulty of such a task is this GTA Online is a sandbox full of murderous drug dealers who fly invisible motorcycles and launch orbital attacks. Coordinating these actors is a difficult task, and in this way we can learn more about the digital worlds we live in and their capabilities.
The documentary asks: What is this space? How do we use it now and what else is possible with it? Can we turn this old story into a brand new one? And will it still make sense? The cinematic potential of Los Santos is immediately apparent, with its glittering, breathtakingly detailed cityscape and surrounding countryside, ray-traced lighting rendering, ever-changing weather systems and intricate sound design. By using the game’s built-in phone camera, we were able to capture intimate close-ups and cinematic panning shots across landscapes – allowing for more cinematic imagery and moments of pathos, emotion and lyricism in the chaos and violence of this undiscovered land.
There have been other notable collisions between the traditional world of theater and online gaming, such as the Wasteland Theater Company and its plays performed therein Fallout 76. It’s always interesting to see players find new perspectives and ways to interpret the world of GTA Onlineor another online space to tell their own stories.
