{"id":113378,"date":"2020-05-22T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/363505"},"modified":"2020-05-22T14:13:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T14:13:00","slug":"fortnite-is-morphing-into-a-movie-theater-with-help-from-christopher-nolan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/22\/fortnite-is-morphing-into-a-movie-theater-with-help-from-christopher-nolan\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite is morphing into a movie theater with help from Christopher Nolan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For its next trick, Epic Games battle royale shooter <em>Fortnite<\/em> will morph into a virtual movie theater to host a showing of an unnamed Christopher Nolan movie.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The news comes after the latest trailer for Nolan&#8217;s upcoming&nbsp;movie Tenet premiered in the popular online title.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since launching back in July 2017, <em>Fortnite <\/em>has evolved into a bona&nbsp;fide social platform. The title&nbsp;has previously played host to massive virtual concerts featuring acts like Marshmello and Travis Scott, while the recent opening of a new combat-free &#8216;Party Island&#8217; has given the game&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/362596\/Fortnite_surpasses_350_million_registered_players.php\">350 million&nbsp;players<\/a>&nbsp;a place to&nbsp;kick back and shoot the breeze.<\/p>\n<p>A variety of major movie tie-ins have also brought big-screen characters from the likes of Star Wars and The Avengers to the builder-shooter, but this is the first time players will be able to watch a full-length feature film in-game.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The film will begin screening in <em>Fortnite<\/em> later this summer, and will be a completely free to all players. Previous events like the Travis Scott concert <a href=\"https:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/362166\/Fortnites_newest_mode_cuts_combat_to_create_a_purely_social_space.php\">pulled in&nbsp;over 27 million unique logins<\/a> across five scheduled shows, so it&#8217;ll be fascinating to see whether the Nolan flick can generate a similar response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For its next trick, Epic Games battle royale shooter Fortnite will morph into a virtual movie theater to host a showing of an unnamed Christopher Nolan movie.&nbsp; The news comes after the latest trailer for Nolan&#8217;s upcoming&nbsp;movie Tenet premiered in the popular online title.&nbsp; Since launching back in July 2017, Fortnite has evolved into a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}