Angled Whiteboards

A number of us at the office got a chance to see The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters when director Seth Gordon was in town a couple of weeks ago. It’s absolutely as great as the reviews have said.

All week in GameTap Watch, Plug and Play is featuring an interview with Gordon. Today he starts in on the amazing real-life human cartoon known as Billy Mitchell. He describes Mitchell as a character straight out of an 80s movie. Which makes all the sense in the world after yesterday’s revelation that the movie began without a specific video game (or players). Apparently, Gordon and producer Ed Cunningham started with nothing more than than the idea of creating a “sports movie where the sport was a video game.” Turns out the Donkey Kong narrative they stumbled into had a built-in Billy Zabka in Billy Mitchell. Score!

This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 at 11:48 am and is filed under Gaming.