(More SPOILERS for Taxi Driver follow.)
My friend James has pointed out some more info on the upcoming Taxi Driver videogame:
“The game picks up where the movie left off,” said the developer in a statement. “As Travis reminisces about his bloody rescue of the young prostitute Iris, it seems the violent catharsis and recovery that ended the film has turned his life around. However, a terrible sequence of events finds him unable to stop the murder of someone very special to him. His ensuing quest for revenge finds Travis Bickle once again on an inexorable path towards violence. Players will fight their way through the mean streets of New York City in Travis’s bid for vengeance, to bring the ruthless rain that will clean the scum off the streets once and for all.”
Also, check out James’s comments on the previous post for more information on other upcoming film-to-videogame adaptations. None of them seem as ludicrous, or as likely to miss the point of the source film, as the Taxi Driver game.