Iranian actress and director Zar Amir (Holy Spider, Tatami) is ready to play Woman Macbeth in Lili, a brand new interactive online game being produced by the Royal Shakespeare Firm (RSC) in collaboration with New York indie online game studio iNK Tales. Amir’s Paris-based Alambic Manufacturing will co-produce. Lili marks the RSC’s online game debut.
The interactive tackle Shakespeare’s iconic play will see Zar Amir play Woman Macbeth, aka Lili. The sport is ready in a stylized, neo-noir model of contemporary Iran, the place everyone seems to be beneath surveillance and the authoritarian state reaches into day by day life. The gameplay will combine live-action cinema with an interactive format, giving gamers the prospect to make the alternatives that may shake Lili’s future. Macbeth’s witches are reimagined as hackers and surveillance cameras and cyber-infiltration instruments will enable gamers to immerse themselves within the sport world.
“Lili takes up Shakespeare’s character-based exploration of political ambition, private compromise, and distorted human lives beneath tyranny, and transports these themes to up to date Iran,” stated Emma Smith, an RSC Board member and main Shakespeare tutorial who labored on the variation of the textual content for the sport, calling it “each completely Shakespearean, and radically defamiliarized. Neglect the outdated chestnut that Shakespeare can be writing for Hollywood if he have been alive now: what Lili makes completely clear is – he’d be writing for gaming.”
“As a storytelling medium, gaming in the present day is what theatre has at all times been; an opportunity to discover worlds, inhabit tales, and expertise one thing directly private and communal,” added RSC co-artistic administrators Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey. “Lili creates comparable results for audiences. Centering this tense thriller round Woman Macbeth moderately than her husband is radical and transformative. It turns the play’s questions round gender, identification and energy inside out.”
Zar Amir received one of the best actress prize in Cannes in 2022 for Ali Abbasi’s Holy Spider and stepped behind the digital camera for the game thriller Tatami in 2023, co-directing with Israeli filmmaker Man Nattiv.
iNK Studios is finest identified for its award-winning sport 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, an interactive journey during which the participant controls an aspiring photojournalist, who returns to Iran amidst the Iranian Revolution. Launched in 2016, the sport received a number of awards, was showcased on the Sundance and SXSW movie festivals.
Lili is at the moment in growth and slated for launch later this yr throughout a number of gaming platforms.