Minecraft Helped Guide Shootout Film for free Fire's Set

Minecraft helped guide 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 create the set for his new action film Free Fire.

The film starring Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Sharlto Copley and Michael Smiley is dominated by an intricate shootout set in an abandoned factory.

Wheatley revealed that he had designed the factory's layout first in Minecraft during an Q&A session on the film in Inverness.

This helped to guide physical scale models as well as the final set.

Wheatley director of High-Rise and Sightseers was in Inverness Monday, as part of the tour of UK cinemas with his film, before it goes to general release.

The film-maker's last visit to the Highland city when he was a boy in the 1970s.

Free Fire also stars Armie Hammer while Martin Scorsese, a fan of Wheatley's film Kill List, is an executive producer.

In the Q and A session at Eden Court he said he was working on a graphic novelist Frank Miller's Hard Boiled.

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 finished as a film.
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