NYT Bestselling Author Writes Alone In The Dark
In an effort to beef up the storytelling of the upcoming Alone In The Dark, Atari hired New York Times bestselling author Lorenzo Carcaterra to write the script. He wrote the book Sleepers, which eventually became a movie in 1996 starring Robert DeNiro and Kevin Bacon. With more than twenty years of writing experience under his belt, Carcaterra has worked on fiction, non-fiction, television, film and now video games. Carcaterra was raised in Hell’s Kitchen, which informed the street sensibility of his crime novels Apaches, Gangster, Chasers, and Street Boys. Working on Alone in the Dark seems like a perfect fit for the New York native, since it is set primarily in Central Park.
"Alone in the Dark was a challenge which allowed me to bring a realistic feel to an apocalyptic situation facing New York City and really dig into the Central Park conspiracy idea," said Carcaterra in a statement. "It also allowed me to write for hard-edged characters, some good, some bad, all forced to confront a force whose power they could never imagine. The story never stalls, always moves in overdrive and the characters zoom right along at warp speed, stopping long enough along the way to say a few lines that keep driving the plot forward..."
I'm interested to see how the latest entry in the Alone in the Dark series is going to hold up. The original title gave birth to the survival horror genre, and the last game was Alone in the Dark, The New Nightmare which was released back in '01. So there has been a considerable about of time between entries.I hope Atari and Eden Games do Edward Carnby's legacy justice.
Actual Writer Penning Alone in the Dark's Script [1up]
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Posted to Hot Stuff, Video Games on 11 May 2007
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