Christian Cantamessa (born October 4, 1976) is an Italian-American writer, director, and video game creator best known as lead designer and co-writer of ''

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'' and the ''Manhunt'' series, designer on '' Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas'', and writer of '' Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor''. He is also the founder and CEO of Sleep Deprivation Lab, which is a production company and video game consulting firm known for work on ''

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'', '' The Crew'', ''

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'', ''Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor'', and '' Middle-earth: Shadow of War''. He also was the director and writer of ''

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'', a feature film released in 2015 starring

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, and

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. In December 2020, it was revealed that Cantamessa was working on story, world-building and cinematic direction for the reboot of ''

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'' with Xbox's

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studio. He has since left the project. In October 2024, Cantamessa announced that he had founded a new game development company called Day 4 Night Studios, in collaboration with longtime friend Davide Soliani (creator of

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and its sequel). Cantamessa is currently the co-Game Director on a new original game IP.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cantamessa, Christian 1974 births 21st-century American screenwriters 21st-century Italian screenwriters American male screenwriters American video game designers Italian male screenwriters Italian video game designers Living people People from Savona Red Dead Video game writers