taika waititi, a designer hoodie—clad tech bro who heads up a massive games company with some very dubious business practices — which of course could never, ever happen in the real world. i'm a rule—breaker. i'm a rattle—chiki—chiki—snaker. the movie's diretor, shawn levy, is best known for the night at the museum films, as well as netflix�*s stranger things. but he's no stranger to games, having worked on and ultimately exited a movie adaptation of blockbuster playstation franchise uncharted. now, there've been lots of adaptations of video games into movies, with varying degrees of success. does creating a fictional game world, which draws on gaming culture really heavily, help you avoid some of the pitfalls that those kind of movies have made? yeah, you — you hit the nail on the head. i spent a year working on uncharted, and so i speak first—hand when i say it's possible to be very creative when you're doing a videogame adaptation, but you're never completely unshackled. you are always beholden to the lore