While Grand Theft Auto was one of the biggest influences on the movie, Gillberg spoke about how they watched footage of a wide swath of video games when researching for the film in addition to using the first-hand gaming knowledge of various creative members.
But the team didn’t view it as a surface-level relationship and instead looked at plenty of video games for inspiration.
The film eventually goes into a paradise-like area, which can be easy to liken directly to Horizon Zero Dawn and its post-post-apocalyptic world.
There’s a pretty big Fortnite and Grand Theft Auto influence on the movie.