It’s an intriguing idea to explore that she’s not redeemable.” For Widowmaker, different events created this monster. “The video about Mercy is hopeful - how those events turned her into the hero we love. “I like the idea that it’s a tragic story,” Peters said. The blue-skinned sniper is one of the least-used but most-loved characters in all of Overwatch, and though playful and sexy emotes and costumes dull the severity of her largely hidden backstory, Peters wants the next film to remind Overwatch fans that Widowmaker is kind of an irredeemable monster. Peters describes the filming style as “almost like a third-person point of view” to “keep these heroes larger than life.” For Peters, to put her fully on display might make “just a purple girl with a sniper rifle” - the same one who’s fetishized by the fandom so much.
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Peters explains that they’re working on “the idea of an Alien-style combat movie filming Widowmaker like the xenomorph: The less you see, the more you experience.” He adds, “Enough went into making her design authentic and realistic that exploring more of that character felt inevitable.” Lupin Productions, the company behind the Mercy-focused “Heroes Never Die” Overwatch short film, has its sights on the beautiful and deadly sniper Widowmaker for its next live-action film.Ĭo-founder of Lupin Productions Grayson Peters tells Inverse that Widowmaker was introduced as an adversary to Mercy in “Heroes Never Die” so that the film could have a “centralized villain” whom fans connected with.
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