Minecraft helped to guide shootout movie Free Fire's set By Steven McKenzie BBC Scotland Highlands and Islands reporter
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28 February 2017
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Ben Wheatley, a filmmaker has shared the process he used in Minecraft to build the set for his action movie Free Fire.
Brie Larson, Sharlto Copley, Sharlto Murphy, and Michael Smiley star in the film. The film is dominated by a complex shootout in a factory that has been abandoned.
During a Q&A on the movie in Inverness, Wheatley said he first created the factory's layout in Minecraft.
This was a great way to guide the physical scale models as well as the final set.
Wheatley director of High-Rise and Sightseers, was in Inverness on Monday to take part in an itinerary of UK cinemas with his film, which is due to go out to general release.
The Highland city was the home of the film maker when he was a child in the 1970s.
Free Fire also stars Armie Hammer while Martin Scorsese, a fan of Wheatley's film Kill List, is an executive producer.
He stated that he was currently working on an adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel Hard Boiled during the Eden Court question and answer session.
Miller's Sin City stories were previously made into films.
Wheatley declared that the adaptation was in the process of writing and could take up to four years before it is ready to be made into film.
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