![]() In this game, you die and then you’re down the rabbit hole.” On a set you can set up some kind of heavy battle scene that takes a couple of days or a week to shoot and you feel the bombs going off and you do it piece by piece by piece. “I know that the consultants for the game are drawing from the real world and that’s what makes it so shocking to a guy like me who’s never set a foot in that world. “That doesn’t surprise me because the game just feels so incredibly real,” said Fichtner. Having played Sergeant First Class Jeff Sanderson in Ridley Scott’s Blackhawk Down, Fichtner, who trained with Delta Force soldiers for that film, isn’t surprised that Call of Duty is popular with the Armed Forces. He’s going to come back at you with something that’s absolutely 100-percent appropriate for the moment.” I could be in a scene with Ed Harris and throw him a left curve and I’m going to tell you something, you’re not going to shake Ed Harris. They know how to figure out a story, but most of all know how to play a moment of a situation. ![]() “It dawned on me when we were shooting the film, that not so much that it’s any slap on my own back, but it does make sense to go out and find really talented on-camera actors that know how to play a moment. “Ed Harris is such a gentleman and people just love him in the games,” said Fichtner. I really need another thing in my life to suck two hours out of the day.”įichtner, who just wrapped the submarine movie Phantom with Call of Duty: Black Ops star and Academy Award nominee Ed Harris, has watched as more and more talented actors have migrated to games. I used to think, ‘Oh video games, so what?’ I didn’t know jack about games and as soon as I got introduced to them, I realized, ‘No wonder it’s so intoxicating.’ Now I’m going to have to carve enough time out of my life to actually get involved in them because they’re so fun. It’s like when you’re ignorant about something, you just don’t think about it that much. “I didn’t realize how compelling they were. ![]() “I was only familiar with video games in the most peripheral way because I don’t play them and they just didn’t penetrate my world,” said Greenwood. In the case of Greenwood, all they had to do was ask him to play Overlord. Getting actors on board the most successful video game franchise today wasn’t very difficult for developers Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games. Hollywood film composer Brian Tyler ( The Expendables, Fast Five) enhances the on-screen action with an epic score, while actors Timothy Olyphant ( Justified, Hitman), William Fichtner ( Drive Angry, The Dark Knight), Billy Murray (Captain John Price from the Modern Warfare series, Essex Boys) and Bruce Greenwood ( Thirteen Days, Star Trek) spent days in the recording studio to bring the central characters in the campaign mode to life. Taking advantage of its Los Angeles location, Activision has once again enlisted Hollywood talent to breathe life into virtual heroes in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. ![]()
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