Sam Barlow, creator of Her Story and Telling Lies, announced his new game Immortality at the Future Games Show in June last year. This project, formerly known as Project Ambrosio, was named Immortality and appeared.
It’s about Immortality actress Marissa Marcel, whom Barlow calls an “interactive film trilogy.” Marcel has appeared in three films to date, all three of which have not been released, and then Marcel disappears completely. Throughout the game, we’ll piece together pieces like Barlow’s previous plays to find out why Marcel disappeared and why the films weren’t released.
Marcel played Matilda in the 1968 adaptation of M.G. Lewis’s famous gothic novel The Monk. In 1970, she starred in Minsky, about the death of a famous artist, in which she played the muse suspected of committing the murder. Marcel’s third film, which never sees the light of day, is in 1999. It’s a thriller called Two of Everything that explores the relationship between a successful pop star and his body stuntman. But as you can see in the trailer, Marcel hasn’t aged a day in the intervening 30 years. I guess that’s where the name of the game must be.
Barlow says Immortality is even bigger than Telling Lies; and he’s been accompanied by some of the most successful names in his writing: Amelia Gray of Mr Robot; Allan Scott of Queen’s Gambit; and Barry Gilford of Wild at Heart.
Immortality will be released later this year.
