
I think TV, film and video games are gonna merge into these immersive alternate reality experiences. Noire?!” They were both playing it to get a feel for L.A. When I started on Penny Dreadful: City of Angels last year, both the lead, Danny Zovatto, and the director of the pilot, Paco Cabezas, came up to me independently and said, “Holy shit! You were in L.A. The actual face-voice performance was one of the stranger filming experiences I’d ever had. They just stuck my head on that other actor’s body. I never got to do the greenscreen ping pong ball body motion capture. Whoever they hired originally to play the bartender didn’t work out, so they called me in to do the face-voice acting. I actually ended up replacing another actor. Of course, it was not without some criticism ( South Park poked fun at aspects, such as the fact that blowing an interview does not necessarily impact a case being successfully closed.) Still, the game holds a score of 89 (PS3 and XB360) on review aggregation site Metacritic.įile No. Noire was also the first game to be named an Official Selection of the Tribeca Film Festival. Noire received high marks from critics for the storytelling, MotionScan technology, and its 2012 BAFTA- winning original score. Noire was announced in 2005 and developed by the now-defunct Team Bondi (the studio’s first and only title) and published by Rockstar Games. Harrington ( Bosch) and Michael McGrady ( Southland, Ray Donovan).ĭirected and written by Brendan McNamara, L.A. In fact, several Mad Men actors and actresses had roles peppered throughout the meticulously re-created 1940s Los Angeles, including Michael Gladis (Paul Kinsey), Myra Turley (Katherine Olson), Rich Sommer (Harry Crane), Kate Norby (Carol McCardy), and Patrick Fischler (Jimmy Barrett), among a sprawling cast that also included John Noble ( The Lord of the Rings, Fringe), Adam J. Rich Sommer (Harry Crane), Aaron Staton (Ken Cosgrove) and Michael Gladis (Paul Kinsey) in ‘Mad Men.’ Everett CollectionĪaron Staton, best known as fan-favorite Ken Cosgrove on Mad Men, played the role of Phelps, lending his voice and likeness via motion capture and the then-newly developed facial MotionScan technology.
