Glen Schofield on Call of Duty Controversy: “Call of Duty is an Epic Blockbuster Movie, it’s also Art”
We spoke to the studio head of Sledgehammer Studios about Controversy.
Call of Duty developers get a hard time with the mainstream press, mostly from your 'Big News Conglomerates' (i.e Fox News, NBC and the like - Oh, and the BBC/ITV in the UK), so it's also interesting to find out how the Call of Duty developers feel about the whole thing. Is it something they purposely set out to do? G.Schofield says 'absolutely no'.
XG247 (Sam Clay): You get a lot of bad press from the Mainstream Media trying to say you're here to create controversial content in order to get an audience, how does one reply to those people?
Glen Schofield (Studio Head, Sledgehammer Games): You know, Call of Duty and the Modern Warfare series is a fictitious story, it's something we've made up, it's fantasy. This is putting you in the middle of a massive blockbuster entertainment piece and you're the star now. And so, when we're writing these stories, we're not thinking about how far we can take it, we have respect for everything that goes on in the world but we are making the story up. This isn't for lack of respect of anybody, it's just, this is art.
We try not to do anything that's controversial, we don't sit down and decide to create something that's controversial just to blow people away, we're trying to tell a great story and again, it's fictional.
We'll have more from Glen later in the week, twas good to have a chat with the guy.
