Minecraft Helped Guide Shootout Film for free Fire's Set

Minecraft was instrumental in guiding shootout movie Free Fire's location. By Steven McKenzie BBC Scotland Highlands and Islands reporter

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28 February 2017

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Film-maker Ben Wheatley has revealed how he used the video game Minecraft to help him construct the set for his new action movie Free Fire.

Brie Larson, Sharlto Copley, Sharlto Murphy, and Michael Smiley star in the film. The film is dominated by a complicated shootout in a factory that has been abandoned.

In a Q&A on the movie in Inverness, Wheatley said he first created the layout of the factory in Minecraft.

This was a great way to guide the physical scale models as well as the final set.

Wheatley director of High-Rise and Sightseers was in Inverness Monday as part of an itinerary of UK cinemas with his film, prior to when it goes on general release.

The Highland city was the home of the film-maker when he was a young boy in the 1970s.

Free Fire also stars Armie Hamer, while Martin Scorsese is the executive producer. Servers Scorsese is a fan of Wheatley’s 2011 movie Kill List.

He mentioned that he was working on an adaptation for Frank Miller's graphic novel Hard Boiled during the Eden Court question and answer session.

Miller's Sin City stories were previously made into films.

Wheatley said that the adaptation was still in the writing process and could still be four years away from being complete as a film.

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