Guts, Glory, and Gaming with Director Neil Marshall

Vincent Genovese: Your new film, Centurion, is out in theaters on Aug 27, but is available to watch now on-demand on Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. Was the video game audience in mind during the making of this film?

Neil Marshall: Not specifically, but I can kind of see why it might be. It wasn't the way I thought about it. I mean, the way its been released here is new to me. I haven't encountered this thing of the VOD before the theatrical, and I'm still not sure I understand it but it seems to work for these guys [Magnolia Pictures]. They'd really got behind it so I'll trust their judgment on that. The thing is as a director your like "oh no, no, no it has to be theatrical" that's the way its always been. They have new ways of doing it so it's interesting.

Vincent Genovese: Do you play video games at all?

Neil Marshall: I do. Yeah. Not fanatically but I got quite a few. My favorites are the first-person shooters. I'm into things like Uncharted, which is fantastic. Uncharted 2 is unbelievable. Yeah, all the shoot-em up ones. The Medal of Honors, Modern Warfare which is just phenomenal.