The Wachowskis worked with South Korean superstar Rain on Speed Racer, and after being impressed by his fighting skills decided to craft an old-fashioned ninja movie around him. This led to 2009's Ninja Assassin, where Rain plays an outcast from a cruel ninja clan who becomes a target when he tries to bring them down. Naomie Harris co-starred as Europol agent helping Rain and the movie was directed by James McTeigue, who previously helmed V For Vendetta for the Wachowskis.
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Ninja Assassin is a 2009 neo-noir martial arts film directed by James McTeigue. The story was written by Matthew Sand, with a screenplay by J. Michael Straczynski. The film stars South Korean pop musician Rain as a disillusioned assassin looking for retribution against his former mentor, played by ninja film legend Sho Kosugi. Ninja Assassin explores political corruption, child endangerment and the impact of violence. The Wachowskis, Joel Silver, and Grant Hill produced the film for Legendary Pictures, Dark Castle Entertainment and Silver Pictures. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.
The Ozunu Clan, led by the ruthless Lord Ozunu, trains orphans from around the world to become the ultimate ninja assassins. Raizo is one of the orphans. The Ozunu Clan's training is extremely brutal, especially for Raizo since he is to be the next successor of the clan. The only kindness he ever feels is from a young kunoichi named Kiriko, with whom he eventually develops a romantic bond. As time goes by, Kiriko becomes disenchanted with the Ozunu's routine and decides to abandon it. One rainy night, Kiriko climbs a wall to escape and encourages Raizo to join her, but he chooses to stay. Branded as a traitor, Kiriko is captured and later executed in front of Raizo by their elder ninja brother Takeshi, who impales her through the heart.
Years later, an adult Raizo is instructed by Lord Ozunu to complete his first assassination. After the mission, Raizo meets the rest of his clan atop a city skyscraper in Berlin. There, Lord Ozunu orders him to execute a kunoichi traitor. Remembering Kiriko's death, Raizo slashes Lord Ozunu's face with his kyoketsu-shoge and fights against his fellow ninjas. Barely surviving, he falls off the rooftop and into a river. After years, Raizo recovers and trains on his own to intervene in, and foil, all of Ozunu's assassination attempts.
Ninja Assassin was directed by James McTeigue, who had previously worked with producers The Wachowskis and Joel Silver on V for Vendetta four years prior. The Wachowskis were inspired to make the film by actor Rain's impressive ninja-based fight scenes in their 2008 film Speed Racer. The initial screenplay was written by Matthew Sand, and was rewritten by J. Michael Straczynski only six weeks prior to filming due to the Wachowskis' initial dissatisfaction. Martial Artist turned actor Sho Kosugi had previously starred in a number of ninja movies playing ninja villains and heroes several times in the 1980s, and had become a cult icon, hence his role as the antagonist Lord Ozunu, named after En no Ozunu, a 7th-century Japanese mystic and one of the developers of ninjutsu. "If you've ever watched any ninja films from the 1980s, you know that Sho Kosugi is the ninja; he is the man," asserts McTeigue.[5]
As mentioned above, Jenkins devised the term transmedia storytelling in 2003,talking about the flow of a narrative across media. According to Jenkins, atthe base of a good transmedia narrative lies a compelling storyworld: "Agood character can sustain multiple narratives and thus lead to a successfulmovie franchise. A good 'world' can sustain multiple characters(and their stories) and thus successfully launch a transmediafranchise." (Jenkins, 2003, para. 13). In his book Convergence Culture (2006) Jenkins calls The Matrix a prime example of this new practice of transmedia storytelling. In thisbook, Jenkins gives a more elaborate definition of transmedia storytelling:
In 2008 Ubisoft acquired Hybride Technologies, a visual effects studio. In anews statement at the time, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot explained theacquisition saying, "The future of our industry depends on our abilityto create brands that captivate audiences and to extend those brands to otherforms of entertainment" (Ubisoft News US, 2008), to which Montreal CEOYannis Mallat added, "Ubisoft and Hybride share the same vision ofentertainment convergence" (ibid.). Most gamers assumed that Ubisoftwould be branching out into film, but at Ubisoft's 2009 E3 PressConference Guillemot explained that the acquisition was not merely a bid atmedia convergence. Rather, Ubisoft wanted more, they wanted confluence,"our strategy is to put in place bridges between the creative talentsbuilding those [fully interconnected] worlds to enrich each other'sexperience" (Guillemot, 2009). Adding that Ubisoft, "...had alreadyentered the era where movies, games, music and books interact around theconstruction of a single universe experience" (ibid.) What could beachieved using this approach became clear when at the very end of theconference Ubisoft showed their Assassin's Creed II E3launch trailer, which combined the digitally created world of the upcoming Assassin's Creed II game with real-life actors16. Acquiring Hybride Technologies meant that Ubisoft could now share assets,designers, tools and footage, between different media texts. However, when welook at the next set of Assassin's Creed media texts, those with Desmond's ancestor Ezio Auditore da Firenze, itbecomes clear that this part of the franchise is again mostly characterdriven.
Lineage was released shortly before the new main game Assassin'sCreed II (2009). The game itself has the same overall structure as the first maingame. In it, we follow Desmond who escapes from the Abstergo premises withthe help of a group of modern day Assassins, who, conveniently, have theirown Animus so that Desmond can explore the memories of his ancestor Ezio.Unlike Altaïr, Ezio, whose name is derived from the Latin for eagle, is moreof a developed character17. The game and the short movie cover his life from the age of approximatelyseventeen until he is forty18. As Corey May said, Ezio's story is about revenge, he does not start asan assassin, but is forced into that role because his father and brothers arekilled. 2ff7e9595c
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