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You've seen Max Payne wear a grimace, but what about a smile? Standing across from Sam Lake is surreal at the best of times, with Remedy Entertainment's creative director having not only shaped some of the best action games of all-time but starred in them too. Now, in the physical manifestation of a world that he wrote into reality, surreal barely cuts it.
Let's back up, because I should probably set the scene. When I arrive on set, Ilkka Villi (the actor who portrays Alan Wake) is already dressed and ready for action. Layered autumnal clothing that's seen better days; his longer jet black hair and unkept beard signaling the chilling passage of time beneath Cauldron Lake. I've spent much of the last decade hoping that I would one day be reunited with the author responsible for such instrumental novels as 'Departure' and 'Return'. I just didn't expect it to be quite like this.
"Feel free to look around Alan's room," says Anssi Maatta, cinematics and live-action director, "but be careful not to touch anything." That's a fair request. Remedy has worked tirelessly to ensure that the spaces designed in the Northlight Engine and those reconstructed in the real-world are a direct reflection of one another. You see, live-action isn't merely being used throughout Alan Wake 2 for impact, but rather to further embed thematic threads of the narrative.
"We don't want to hide the fact that we are using different mediums in Alan Wake 2," Maatta adds. "Even the core thematics of the story revolve around different realities," Lake expands, noting that the two mediums are closely interwoven to help capture the "dream-like nature of the Dark Place." He says that the concept is designed to "keep you off balance, make you question what's real and what's imagined, and make you think about the layers of reality. Some of this is achieved by switching the medium from the game to live action and back again."
Maatta says that Remedy "had a bit more freedom to go weird with the stylization" during live-action scenes as they are "somewhat simpler to create than fully computer-based cinematics." Kaleidoscopes, hair gel, cigarette smoke, and all. What's interesting is that, as outrageous as a lot of this is, Remedy demonstrates restraint as it works towards a consistent visual identity. "Live-action works as a gateway to the odd, psychedelic dream reality. Cinematic scenes are used as the glue between the gameplay and the most important story beats," says Maatta, adding that Remedy has paid "extra attention to the transitions so that the overall experience feels as smooth and solid as possible."
Remedy's 2016 effort utilized four full-length, live-action episodes to connect each act of the game, engineered by an external company, Lifeboat Productions. For Alan Wake 2, Remedy brought as much in-house as possible to give the studio full autonomy over the implementation and structure of the live action intersections. "We carefully picked key locations that were polished far enough in the game to build them 1:1 in the studio. Even then, once built, we photographed them and polished the game versions further based on the physical versions," says Lake, who expands on this commitment to authenticity. "We use scanned digital doubles of the actors in the game to begin with, so having the same actors in live actions was a given. In a few cases we also created the physical costumes for the characters first, then scanned them for the game."
"I love working with Matt, and I'm very proud to share Alan with him as an actor. Unfortunately, we very rarely got to be in the same room (or on the same continent) when doing Alan Wake 2," he tells me, speaking to the complexities COVID-19 introduced to production. "Luckily for me, the live action scenes were arranged so that I could do the whole performance, voice included, freely, without having to sync up with anything. Matt would then dub all those sequences a couple months later. When preparing, I listened to a lot of Matt's VO material and tried to get a hang of his rhythm and intonation a bit, but I imagine the dubbing task still couldn't have been very easy for him."
"We had a rehearsal day for the character of Tom Zane prior to the shoot," Villi continues, "where we bounced ideas and sort of sketched what Tom could be like this time around. Sam actually finalized the scripts for the Hotel Room scenes only after that. So the three of us kind of gave birth to the character together. But the first time I actually played Tom Zane was after we had already filmed Alan's side for all of their scenes together."
"We had an actor to help me out in the scenes between Wake and Zane, standing in first for Zane and then Wake. He'd be focused and deliver the lines, but I would always ask him to be very neutral in his delivery. I needed to be the one to decide what Zane would be like and how he would react to things. So in a way I was already acting a little bit as Zane in my head while I was actually acting as Wake," says Villi.
"The fact that Wake's dominant state of mind is confusion and a certain what-the-fuckness made that somewhat easier. The irony of it all was that when I finally had a scene partner in the Alan Wake 2 live action shoots, I still didn't really have one. But Sam and Anssi were constantly there to direct me, help me with everything and convince me that what I did made sense. I thought it was a beautiful collaboration." Later, on a large monitor, I see the separately recorded Zane and Wake performances aligned together to replicate their shared scene, and honestly, the effect is astounding.
When it's all said and done, I walked away from the soundstage more convinced than ever that Alan Wake 2 is Remedy Entertainment's most ambitious project to date. The studio has played with the seamless integration of live action and in-game play in the past, but never to such an audacious extent. It's the attention to detail and the willingness to experiment that stuck with me, and made me even more keen to check out the final result on October 27, 2023.
Speaking to Lake, he knows full well that there were easier paths to take. The intersection between gameplay, cinematics, and live action that Remedy is shooting for brings challenges for both the developers and performers, with the expansion of Villi's role adding yet more complexity to proceedings. Then again, he wouldn't have it any other way.
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