'Taxi Driver' speeds onto consoles
Leslie Katz Former Culture Editor
Leslie Katz led a team that explored the intersection of tech and culture, plus all manner of awe-inspiring science, from space to AI and archaeology. When she's not smithing words, she's probably playing online word games, tending to her garden or referring to herself in the third person.
Credentials
- Third place film critic, 2021 LA Press Club National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards
Who could forget Robert DeNiro's tortured, violent Travis Bickle in the American classic "Taxi Driver"? (You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin' to?)
The gritty urban portrait of alienation is about to make it to a next-generation console near you. According to a Reuters/Hollywood Reporter story published on Wednesday, Majesco Entertainment has acquired a licensing agreement with Sony Pictures Consumer Products to publish the 1976 film as a video game. The release--which will make its debut at the upcoming Electronic Entertainment Expo 2005--will commemorate the movie's 30th anniversary.
The original film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including best picture.