![]() "In a horror story, the victim keeps asking 'why?' But there can be no explanation, and there shouldn't be one. "Stephen King once wrote that 'Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.' The first game begins with a sequence where we see Alan Wake driving through the lonely countryside, over which we hear him deliver the following lines: ![]() "So I'm sure we will be talking about Stephen King influences in, among other things."Īlan Wake and its sequel feature numerous nods to King throughout - alongside other influences such as the works of HP Lovecraft, and the TV shows Twin Peaks and The Twilight Zone. "Obviously he has done a lot of that," Lake continued. Lake was speaking ahead of his appearance at Tribeca Festival where he discussed the horror genre - somewhere King has also appeared for similar conversations. "It's my understanding he wanted $1 for us to get the rights to use it. ![]() "Creating the original Alan Wake, I really, really desperately wanted a quote from him to start it off," Lake told Eurogamer's Chris Tapsell in an interview this month at Summer Game Fest. Luckily, King was on board with the idea too. Speaking to Eurogamer, Remedy boss Sam Lake revealed he had "really, really, desperately wanted" to be able to open the game with a quote from King himself - whose style matches much of the spooky supernatural horror that follows. Famed writer Stephen King granted Remedy the rights to use his infamous quote that opens the original Alan Wake for the nominal sum of just $1.Īlan Wake memorably begins with a voiceover from the game's main character quoting King in a description of what nightmares really mean. ![]()
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