You may not know his name, but you’ve played his games. Jerry O’Flaherty made his name as Gears of War‘s Art Director. He also co-founded Ion Storm and worked on Daikatana. Next up, a movie!
Florida police charged James “Jimmy” Davis in the gruesome murder of former Thundercats writer Stephen Perry (pictured here), who went missing from his Florida home in May and was reported dead later that month.
Stephen Perry, who was a writer for 1980s cartoon ThunderCats, recently went missing. His van was found last Sunday. Inside it, a man’s severed arm. Stephen Perry, police now report, is dead.
Gaming’s Jerry O’Flaherty will direct the upcoming CG-animated Thundercats movie by Warner Bros, Variety reports.
O’Flaherty was the art director on Gears of War, Unreal Tournament 3 and several Command & Conquer games, to name a few. He says that making the jump from video game to CG-movie won’t be that difficult.
“It feels like a natural thing for me to step into,” he said. “Games have come so far now. The last four years of my life have been about bringing the energy of filmmaking into the videogame experience.”
O’Flaherty will be working with Paul Sopocy on the script which involves a sort of origin story for the 80s cartoon.
O’Flaherty to direct ‘Thundercats’ [Variety]
