Screen Rant is happy to current an unique clip from the upcoming video-on-demand launch of Virtually Heroes. Ten years after it was initially screened on the Sundance Film Festival in 2013, the movie is lastly set to launch to a large viewers. Virtually Heroes was government produced by Roger Corman (Frankenstein Unbound, The Wild Angels), and directed and produced by GJ Echternkamp (Frank and Cindy, The Car: Road to Revenge). The movie stars Robert Baker (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), Brent Chase (Shameless), Katie Savoy (How I Met Your Mother), and Mark Hamill (Star Wars). Virtually Heroes shall be launched on video on demand on January seventeenth.
This Call of Duty-inspired story options two self-aware characters who should battle infinite enemies and their very own existential crises in a online game world. Sgt. Books (Baker) seeks assist and finds riddles within the straight-talking Monk (Hamill) whose persona recollects an identical enigmatic character Hamill himself needed to face in The Empire Strikes Back. In Virtually Heroes, Monk teaches Books the “cheat codes of life” which allow him to interrupt free from the infinite battles and damsel-in-distress rescues that the sport retains placing him by way of. With this breakthrough, he simply would possibly persuade his fellow gaming warrior Lt. Nova (Chase) that this recreation world will not be as superior because it appears, as the next unique clip introduced by Screen Rant will attest.
Screen Rant’s unique clip from Virtually Heroes units the stage with a scene that seems straight out of a ’70s struggle movie. Books and Nova are trapped on a ship whereas their adversaries arrange on a bridge overlooking the river. Books exclaims that that is his least favourite method to die, however Nova is prepared and prepared to enter the fray and take what he appears to suppose is a heroic loss of life. Queue his leaping off the boat in the direction of hazard, whereas Books undergoes a scene acquainted to players in every single place – the seek for the right weapon. He slowly works his means by way of his cache of pistols, rifles, and even what seems to be a paint palette earlier than he pulls the weapon he is been searching for the entire time. With this trusty rocket launcher, he is in a position to simply dispatch his enemy, and take out the bridge they inhabit. One is left solely to surprise what occurred to Nova.
The trailer provides an extra have a look at the self-aware Virtually Heroes and the characters that populate the movie, and Sgt. Books throughout one among his many mundane in-game deaths. Books is weary of his world and the ever-churning brutality and loss of life. When he meets the Monk within the jungle, he will get some engimatic knowledge that leads him on a brand new path. With the assistance of his personal in-game start-up menu, he and Nova will search a brand new path away from the monotony of destruction.