An interview with The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman on gaming and Hollywood | The DeanBeat
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Robert Kirkman, Creative Director and Co-Founder of Skybound Entertainment and creator of The Walking Dead, has been crossing media boundaries for decades. I'm very excited to have him speak at our GamesBeat Summit 2023 event, and I was even more excited to interview him this week to give some insight into what he'll be talking about at our event.
The Walking Dead debuted as a comic 20 years ago in 2003. It became a hit TV series in 2010 and ran for 10 years. And then Telltale's video game series debuted in 2012 and sold over 80 million copies.
That's what we used to call transmedia until people decided it was a dirty word, because all transmedia efforts failed. But somehow Kirkman made it work, and Skybound Entertainment became an umbrella for many creators trying to accomplish the same thing.
Through the jungle of Hollywood and video games, Kirkman and his company became examples of how big investments in things like a "writers room" could scale a franchise across many media and create new entry points into the same creative universe. How do you spread a narrative on so many different platforms? And how do you achieve scale without burning out a franchise?
EventGamesBeat Summit 2023
Join the GamesBeat community in Los Angeles on May 22-23. You'll hear from the brightest minds in the gaming industry to share their updates on the latest developments.
register hereWe covered these topics as a preview for our May event. The GamesBeat Summit 2023 event takes place May 22-23 in-person in Los Angeles and May 24 online. (You can get 40% off the ticket price with this code: GBSDEANNEWS; early bird pricing ends today; Facebook Gaming is the main event and session sponsor). Marcus "djWHEAT" Graham, VP of Community Development at Fortis Games and a former longtime executive at Twitch, will join Kirkman in a fireside chat.
They're going to talk about one of the key themes of the conference: Hollywood and gaming – Are they one ecosystem, and if so, how has that changed? This fits with our overall next-level theme, and the session will address a big question: how can a video game, or any content, be taken to the next level?
Here is an edited transcript of our interview.
GamesBeat: Part of the theme of our conference is this...
Connect with the top leaders in gaming in Los Angeles during GamesBeat Summit 2023 on May 22-23. Register here.
Robert Kirkman, Creative Director and Co-Founder of Skybound Entertainment and creator of The Walking Dead, has been crossing media boundaries for decades. I'm very excited to have him speak at our GamesBeat Summit 2023 event, and I was even more excited to interview him this week to give some insight into what he'll be talking about at our event.
The Walking Dead debuted as a comic 20 years ago in 2003. It became a hit TV series in 2010 and ran for 10 years. And then Telltale's video game series debuted in 2012 and sold over 80 million copies.
That's what we used to call transmedia until people decided it was a dirty word, because all transmedia efforts failed. But somehow Kirkman made it work, and Skybound Entertainment became an umbrella for many creators trying to accomplish the same thing.
Through the jungle of Hollywood and video games, Kirkman and his company became examples of how big investments in things like a "writers room" could scale a franchise across many media and create new entry points into the same creative universe. How do you spread a narrative on so many different platforms? And how do you achieve scale without burning out a franchise?
EventGamesBeat Summit 2023
Join the GamesBeat community in Los Angeles on May 22-23. You'll hear from the brightest minds in the gaming industry to share their updates on the latest developments.
register hereWe covered these topics as a preview for our May event. The GamesBeat Summit 2023 event takes place May 22-23 in-person in Los Angeles and May 24 online. (You can get 40% off the ticket price with this code: GBSDEANNEWS; early bird pricing ends today; Facebook Gaming is the main event and session sponsor). Marcus "djWHEAT" Graham, VP of Community Development at Fortis Games and a former longtime executive at Twitch, will join Kirkman in a fireside chat.
They're going to talk about one of the key themes of the conference: Hollywood and gaming – Are they one ecosystem, and if so, how has that changed? This fits with our overall next-level theme, and the session will address a big question: how can a video game, or any content, be taken to the next level?
Here is an edited transcript of our interview.
GamesBeat: Part of the theme of our conference is this...
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