But over the past few years, an odd shift has taken place. ![]() Until very recently, such projects were – fairly, for the most part – dismissed as licensed cash-ins, made purely for fans with low standards. Spun off from a four-part shoot-’em-up series that began in 2009, it was written by Craig Mazin, the Emmy-winning screenwriter of Chernobyl – and co-creator of The Last of Us, the acclaimed HBO zombie-apocalypse series adapted from a 2013 PlayStation survival adventure. Blanchett herself, on the other hand, had arrived on the set of Tár fresh from the Hungary set of Borderlands, a forthcoming video-game-inspired film. ![]() ![]() At the end of Todd Field’s multi-Oscar-nominated film Tár, Cate Blanchett’s “cancelled” conductor is consigned to a fate worse than unemployment: leading the orchestra at a fancy-dress concert for fans of Monster Hunter, the popular fantasy video game.
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