256-Video Game Legend, Walter Day-The Prophecy and Dracula 2000 with Joel Soisson

Published: Sept. 7, 2021, 8:16 p.m.

Writer/Director/Producer Joel Soisson (https://twitter.com/JoelSoisson) talks about his film \u201cMy Best Worst Adventure\u201d.

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Video game legend Walter Day (https://thewalterdaycollection.com/) talks about his predictions for the future of gaming.

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0:00 SEGMENT 1: Joel Soisson talks about his obsession with horror, racing Cambodian water buffalos, filming in southeast Asia, picking up a parasite, making \u201cDracula 2000\u201d with Bob Weinstein, Christopher Plummer, and Gerard Butler, and what draws him to \u201cThe Prophecy\u201d series.

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16:15 SEGMENT 2: Joel Soisson talks about what makes him want to produce a film, what a producer does, why writing and directing is more fun than producing, wanting to be an animator and cinematographer, staying busy during COVID, and working on a \u201cMagnificent Seven\u201d remake with Danny Trejo.

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28:23 SEGMENT 3: Walter Day talks about partnering with Old School Gamer Magazine at Planet Comicon\u2019s Planet Entertainment Zone (PEZ) where they held the Retro Gaming Olympics. Walter also discusses how every new game eventually becomes a retro game and how there have always been people who wanted to be professional gamers and people who wanted to watch them play.

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41:18 SEGMENT 4: Walter Day talks about how meditation helped him visualize the future of video games, how Twin Galaxies helped legitimize competitive e-sports, video game addiction, how close we are to \u201cReady Player One\u201d becoming real, and his favorite video game movies.

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