The all-concrete Vinewood Bowl theatre in Los Santos – populated as it is by a crew of gun-toting online players – might sound like an odd place to showcase the Bard’s works, but Crane is adamant that it makes perfect sense.
“We definitely wanted to kind of move away from it being just like a Twitch stream, kind of film,” says Crane.
“We wanted to have a balance of something that was a true representation of what it is to be in that game space and play that game, but also become something that is a cinematic documentary.”.
You think they're on opposite ends of a cultural spectrum but actually, I think they go together really well,” Crane says.
This isn’t an issue that Kenneth Branagh has ever faced, but then Kenneth Branagh has never attempted to play the Dane in the gun-toting video game of Grand Theft Auto.
