Neo Rasa posted:

You think that's something? The more you learn about Atari the more it seems like the ideal company to show off in this movie. Much like Eldon Tyrell "Atari" as most people would know it hasn't actually made a game or even been alive for about twenty-five years.

Around 2002-ish, the European company Infograemes purchased the name itself and changed their name to Atari to coast on its reputation. After releasing several high profile flops through out the 00s they were reduced to just a brand yet again as the sold off/couldn't renew more and more licenses as time went on, Only in the past three years have been successfully selling compilations of their ("their" as in thirty+ year old games no one at the company had any involvement in in any context in any way) classic games on modern consoles and those plug and play TV anthologies along with the aforementioned casino stuff.

One of those properties, and their most infamous and controversial (they paid a bunch of companies to give the game ridiculously high review scores and praise when the game was unfinished absolute dogshit) flop is Driver 3, or Driv3r as it was officially titled.

Part of the massive marketing done for Driv3r at the time included a ten minute short film I somehow still possess the DVD of. A live action affair of some woman hiring a dude to steal and transport stolen sports cars followed by a brief chase scene.

It was directed by Tony Scott and produced by Ridley Scott.