HBO and Scott Rudin secure rights to TV Show about Indie Game Developers

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Color me dubious. Just check out Rudin's work on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0748784/

That's a lot of solid movies. I have a hard time believing he'd take something so solid and totally screw it up.

HBO series have a lot of credibility, in general, as well. So I'll hold my breath that it doesn't paint indie/startup developers as total screw-ups.

"HBO series have a lot of credibility, in general, as well. So I'll hold my breath that it doesn't paint indie/startup developers as total screw-ups."

I'll give them benefit of the doubt. As a huge fan of 24/7 for Hockey, they've given incredible insight into the game that nearly all fans of hockey and documentaries can enjoy.

I'm excited for the fictional game concepts they develop over the course of the show (if it happens). And I hope they release those concepts as real games as a part of the show's marketing.

Contrary to what the article states, the current talks do not state that it will be a comedy series, but a drama.

This link explains the discrepancy: https://www.facebook.com/IndieGameTheMovie/posts/35236881810...

Basically, HBO has a "half hour" department, which does basically all comedies, and a "one hour" department which are generally dramas. This show will be a drama, but since it's in the "half-hour" department, it's organizationally known as "comedy".

Trivia: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was the first BBC Radio Comedy to be recorded in stereo. This was bureaucratically impossible, so it was initially classified as a Radio Drama.

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