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Famed Filmmakers Tackle Rockstar Games Suicide
Director Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, Milk) and novelist Bret Easton Ellis (Less Than Zero, American Psycho) are pooling their considerable talents to create a film exploring the relationship and suicides of digital artist/Rockstar Games employee Jeremy Blake and game designer/filmmaker Theresa Duncan.
According to Variety, PalmStar Entertainment, Celluloid Dreams, and K5 Film have purchased the film rights to the 2008 Vanity Fair article "The Golden Suicides" written by Nancy Jo Sales. The meandering profile chronicles the couple’s meteoric rise as artists, their conspiracy theory and substance abuse-fueled descent into paranoia, and tragic deaths.
Theresa Duncan made her mark in interactive entertainment by producing three PC games aimed at girls that emphasized exploration and discovery over testosterone-fueled combat – Chop Suey, Smarty, and Zero Zero. Chop Suey was named Entertainment Weekly’s “CD-Rom of the Year” in 1995.
Jeremy Blake was best known as a digital artist and painter whose "Winchester" series was shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2005. The impact of his artistic vision crossed over into other media as well, working with director Paul Thomas Anderson on the hallucinogenic scenes in Punch Drunk Love and creating album art for Beck's album Sea Change. Blake also spent time as as an art director and branding consultant for Rockstar Games in New York. According to MobyGames, he worked on Grand Theft Auto IV, Grand Theft Auto 2, and the London 1969 mission pack for the first GTA. Former Rockstar employees we spoke with also credit him as being one of the minds behind the iconic Rockstar logo.
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