Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the historic motion picture, Majesco Entertainment announced the development of Taxi Driver, a video game based on the classic Martin Scorsese-directed film from Columbia Pictures. Through a licensing agreement with Sony Pictures Consumer Products (SPCP), Taxi Driver is currently being developed by Papaya Studio and is scheduled to ship in spring 2006.
Nominated for four Academy Awards, 'Taxi Driver' remains one of the most iconoclastic films of our time. Compelling and powerful, the movie ensnares viewers in the seedy urban world of New York cabbie Travis Bickle, and we hope to do likewise with our game, said Ken Gold, vice president of Marketing for Majesco.
Written by Paul Schrader and released in 1976, Taxi Driver is a gritty, disturbing, film classic, featuring some of Hollywood's finest actors, including Robert DeNiro, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Cybill Shepherd and Peter Boyle, in a brutally compelling portrayal of alienation and psychoses.