p>Minecraft was instrumental in guiding shootout movie Free Fire's set By Steven McKenzie BBC Scotland Highlands and Islands reporter
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p>28 February 2017
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p>Ben Wheatley, a filmmaker has shared the process he used in Minecraft to create the set for his action movie Free Fire.
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p>The film starring Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Sharlto Copley and Michael Smiley is dominated by the complicated shootout that takes place in an abandoned factory.
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p>Wheatley admitted that he designed the factory's layout initially in Minecraft during a Q&A session about the film in Inverness.
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p>This helped guide physical scale models and the final set.
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p>Wheatley director of High-Rise and Sightseers, was in Inverness on Monday for the tour of UK cinemas to promote his film prior to it going out for general release.
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p>The film-maker's last visit to the Highland city when he was a boy in the 1970s.
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p>Free Fire also stars Armie Hamer, and Martin Scorsese is the executive producer. Scorsese is a fan of Wheatley’s 2011 movie Kill List.
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p>He stated that he was currently working on an adaptation for Frank Miller's graphic novel Hard Boiled during the Eden Court question and answer session.
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p>Miller's Sin City stories were previously made into films.
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p>Wheatley declared that the adaptation was still in the writing stage and could take up to four years before it is ready for production as a movie. https://notes.io/qd9Gd </p>
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