http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/02/27/the-past-present-and-future-of-brutal-legend/
Those might remember a video game involving tons of classic heavy metal songs and staring Jack Black called "Brutal Legend". Well, it didn't do too well and ended up on many clearance tables. Schafer's company recently got the rights back and did a release on PC, which is why we now get an interview with him talking about the making of the game.
Those might remember a video game involving tons of classic heavy metal songs and staring Jack Black called "Brutal Legend". Well, it didn't do too well and ended up on many clearance tables. Schafer's company recently got the rights back and did a release on PC, which is why we now get an interview with him talking about the making of the game.
“By the end of it I couldn’t believe it was happening,” Schafer enthused, almost childlike. “I couldn’t believe I was hanging out in the studio with Ozzy and Rob Halford and Lemmy. I’m on the phone with Lita Ford and stuff. It got to be where I was thinking, ‘What else is my favorite metal song?’ and then putting them in the game. The whole thing was so crazy. The most ridiculous, surreal moment for me was being on the stage at the VGAs while Jack Black shot a flamethrower into the air, yelling my name. That was one of those things where I was like, ‘I don’t know if it can get any crazier than this in my life.’ Then four Amazon women hauled me on stage.”
“One of the weirdest moments was when we recorded Ronnie James Dio. We actually recorded up at Skywalker Sound, which is up on Skywalker Ranch, where I used to work when I started in the game industry at LucasArts. When we were working on Monkey Island, we were up at the ranch. I would eat lunch in the main house every day, this beautiful old Victorian building. I brought Ronnie James Dio up there and then I took him on a tour of where I used to work in 1989. With a guy who sang ‘Mob Rules,’ music I listened to when I was 14, I’m touring through the place that I worked in my 20s. Now I’m here making this game with him. That was so surreal, the combination of George Lucas, Ronnie James Dio, heavy metal – all this stuff.”
