''Game Over'' is a 2003 television film starring

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, Woody Jeffreys and Dominika Wolski. It incorporates footage originally shot for several

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s released by

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Plot

When a supercomputer is linked to a video game network, the computer programmer who designed the game must enter the virtual reality world of his fantasies and defeat the computer before it causes worldwide chaos.

Cast

* Doug Abrahams – Mr. Brinkman * Jeremiah Birkett – Winston *

– Jo *

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– boxing announcer *

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– football coach * Brian Dobson – DJ * Andy Hirsch – Codec * Woody Jeffreys – Steve Hunter *

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– Zoey *

– Drexel's body *

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– boxing cornerman * France Perras – Synthi * Manny Petruzzeli – Drexel's voice * Alvin Sanders – Professor Roswell *

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– Dr. Hellman * Marek Wiedman – Commander * Dominika Wolski – Elaine Barker * Officer Pinkerton – Craig McNair

Production

''Game Over'' (originally titled ''Maximum Surge Movie'') was made by combining 65 minutes of original footage with 25 minutes of footage originally filmed for

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sequences in five different

games: ''

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'' (unreleased), '' Corpse Killer'', ''

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'', '' Supreme Warrior'', and '' Quarterback Attack with Mike Ditka''. The storyline ties all these games together as being part of a game that the main character, Steve Hunter (played by Jeffreys), has to play in order to save the world. The villain of ''Maximum Surge'', Drexel, is adapted to the film as a computer system created by the protagonist, with the in-game character Drexel being its avatar in virtual reality, and the dialogue of Walter Koenig portraying said avatar is dubbed over with a voice actor who also voices Drexel in the real world. The real stars of the movie (Woody Jeffreys and Dominika Wolski) are given second billing in favor of the famous personalities who only appear in the game sequences (Koenig, Bleeth, Schiavelli). Since the game footage was taken several years before the movie was filmed, the footage quality is poorer than the rest of the film.

References

External links

Flash Film Works' information page
* 2003 television films 2003 films English-language Canadian films Films about video games Films about virtual reality Canadian science fiction television films American science fiction television films Digital Pictures 2000s English-language films Films directed by Jason Bourque 2000s American films 2000s Canadian films {{Canada-tv-film-stub