Steven Spielberg Game Starring Quentin Tarantino Jennifer Aniston Resurfaces

Steven Spielberg Game Starring Quentin Tarantino, Jennifer Aniston Resurfaces

A forgotten mid-90s FMV game featuring Steven Spielberg is now online, revealing a hidden movie starring Quentin Tarantino and Jennifer Aniston.

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FMV simulation game Steven Spielberg’s Director’s Chair has found a second lease on life online as a Bandernsatch-style interactive story. Released in 1996 by Knowledge Adventure and Dreamworks Interactive, the game aimed to provide an accurate look at the process of moviemaking, including all aspects of the production. Alongside Steven Spielberg playing himself, would-be auteurs interacted with editor Michael Kahn, special effects supervisor Michael Lantieri, and cinematographer Dean Cundey. One of its biggest selling points was the film footage players worked with, which included rarely seen acting turns by Quentin Tarantino, Jennifer Aniston, and Penn and Teller, among others.

The game was one of many attempts in the early to mid-1990s to take full advantage of the then-new CD-ROM medium. Rather than expand on the scope of games, many developers found the excess storage to be perfect for presenting a “Hollywood-quality” picture and sound in a way that wasn’t possible before. Of course, in the mid-90s, game budgets were not what they are in 2020. This led to productions with legendarily cheesy acting and a general consensus that FMV games were a bargain basement experience. By the end of the decade, the medium was dead in the water, and it’s only in recent times that developers have experimented with the style once again.

Steven Spielberg’s Director’s Chair came out in the latter days of FMV gaming and became a forgotten relic of the era before too long. Game developer Paolo Pedercini recently shared his attempt to revive the game by taking out its best parts and creating something new. The in-game movie (which was originally named by the player) is a murder mystery that stretches Penn and Teller’s acting skills by having them play shady magicians Paine and Terrore. Quentin Tarantino plays a chauffeur seemingly framed for murder while Jennifer Aniston puts herself in danger investigating the case.

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…unfortunately it tried to be a bit too realistic when simulating all the logistical challenges of movie production and left very little room for creativity. The player had very limited agency when writing and shooting the film.

Steven Spielberg’s foray into FMV gaming didn’t work as intended. The game was too complicated for many players, and the footage was too set in stone to allow for much creativity or genuine moviemaking. Repurposed as an interactive story like something that might appear on Netflix, the footage finds new life, even if the acting can be just as cheesy as Mad Dog McCree. Penn and Teller would reuse the “Pain and Terror” names for their Borderlands 3 cameo, and Penn would also play a similarly murderous role in 2016’s Director’s Cut.

This online recreation of Steven Spielberg’s Directors Chair is a great example of why the preservation of both games and films is so important. The footage from the game was highly compressed in 1996, playing on small windows because of the limits of technology at the time. This recreation upscales the footage using AI, creating something that’s better than the original. While this “film” is trivial in the grand scheme of Spielberg’s career, it’s still a project he worked on in his prime, and it deserves to be enshrined alongside everything else when considering his legacy.

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