“It ensures that you will never get a license once again for another title in Hollywood”: Martin Scorsese has put pressure on the release of this project.

The cemetery of abandoned projects sometimes hides amazing discoveries. For example, can you be dirty in the first part of Harry Saga, a Clint Eastwood – a theccal policeman? You will probably neglect it, but there has been an issue of video game that will be canceled in 2007.

The game was to renew the history of the 1971 episodic film, along with Clint Eastwood in the role of Harry Kalahan. Eastwood not only has to name his voice, but also be modeled in the game, and even serves as a consultant. Jane Hakman, Lucy Liu and Laurence Fishburn also had to transfer votes for roles in the distribution of the game. This dirty Harry in video games will eventually shut off Warner Bros. Interactive.

Travis Bickle’s Adventure Lux in Video Games

If we can understand the relevance – although at least a relative – about the game of inspector Harry’s iconic character, it is difficult to understand how the project has evolved almost at once, which will die in 2005: a game based on a taxi driver. Yes, you have read this righteous, game based on the world of Martin Scorsese masterpiece that thought as the direct suits of the movie and had to start where it ends.

In 2005, on behalf of the Majesco, the publisher was looking for a studio to develop a movie taxi driver adaptation, in a video game inspired by Grand Theft theuto III. Since then, a promising developer has been approached, known as Papaya Studio.

Papaya showed the first version of his game called Outlaw Taxi, and then in the process of processing, which papaia impressed Papaya to quickly leave his job, turning Outlaw Taxi drivers; After that, the Majesso acquired the rights of a taxi driver from Sony Pictures. Playstation 2 and X-Box consoles are planned, this taxi driver’s game, which is focused on spring 2006.

The playing version is presented in E3, The World Video Game Fair in 2005. Clearly created a game experience Some discomfort in a specialized press. I rightly believe that such a film and its background darkness did not borrow.

Here is a series of game gambles in the game presented and played during E3 …

“March doesn’t want to get a taxi driver”

Although Martin Scorsese and Paul Laader, a script performer, sold their rights “All Support, Famous and Unknown, Present and Future” In Sonny, in the film studio studio, there is no doubt that they saw their film this way.

A few months after the development of the game, Majesco Executive Producer Dan Kitchen received a furious call from Mark Kaplan, who is responsible for licenses in Sony to bring him discontent to this project, as reported by Sony’s project, as reported This article by Unsesen64.

“We received a March call. He is very dissatisfied with a taxi driver with a license agreement. He doesn’t want to turn into a movie in a video game. The phone rang me out and I went straight to Jesse Saton’s office, the president of Majesco and I said (…) “March doesn’t want to get out of a taxi driver. She tells Dan cooking.

It is also possible that this (large) March pressure stroke on these video games project is also due to the fact that he has imposed an idea – Robert De Niro – Taxi Driver Lux, along with Old Bikli Travis, as reported This Guardian article in February 2005. But this idea was never implemented.

With two games that were seriously evaluated in 2004 and the abolition of the game of these taxi drivers, Majesco had great financial difficulties and was forced to restructure. Papaya attacked the publisher for breach of the contract in late 2005 before it was found two years later. In 2013, the studio closes its doors. March, which uses a method that one of its liberation has not refused pressure, is not banal.