6/15/2023 0 Comments Toonstruck remastered![]() There was great excitement around full-motion video at the time the technique was supposed to be the next evolution in games. ![]() ![]() Though Ripper’s budget was in the millions, the production office was oddly low on petty cash.įor those who’ve forgotten or were not yet born when it was released in February 1996, the gore-filled Ripper was a much-hyped videogame that interspersed scenes of full-motion video with 3D-graphical gameplay. But it was my job to get him whatever he wanted-I was the production coordinator on the videogame Ripper, my first real job out of college, and Walken was the game’s star actor. I didn’t have enough money on hand to get the Oscar-winning actor out of state. ![]() I was idling too I assumed Walken was headed to his Manhattan address, but he sprung the Connecticut destination on me as I was escorting him to the curb. The car we had called for Walken was already idling in front of us. “I need a car, and I need it to take me to Connecticut,” he said. As the aroma of garbage, urine, and rotting cow carcasses choked the air, the actor issued a demand-of course rendered in his trademark clipped delivery reminiscent of his “gold watch” monologue from Pulp Fiction. This was the summer of 1995, back when workers actually packed meat in the neighborhood, in the midst of a heat wave that would deliver a record-breaking 102-degree day later that afternoon. Christopher Walken and I were standing on a dark, deserted street in Manhattan’s Meatpacking district at 4 in the morning.
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