Hot on the heels of their gritty and brooding titles for Silo on Apple TV+, Antibody directors Patrick Clair and Raoul Marks dial up the style and pace in this polished action sequence for the reboot of Bungie’s sci-fi shooter Marathon.

Patrick Clair: “The challenge with this reveal trailer was distilling a very distinctive game into a single 90-second film. On the one hand, Marathon is bright and bold, the aesthetic is clean, technical and playful while the actual gameplay is anything but – it’s brutal kill-or-be-killed squad combat.

“This unique combo pushed us to find a rhythm and a look quite unlike the darker tone that our game partners usually ask for. There was also a challenge to balance the legacy elements of Marathon, a game originally released in the 90s, with introducing a whole new world to an audience that was coming to this fresh.

“For us, the most rewarding elements of the story were the truly strange bits: biomechanical silkworms that weave androids out of synthetic silk, impish AIs lurking in the source code taunting players with godlike manifestations, combat androids branded like sneakers. There’s a lot going on in Marathon, it was a pleasure to be part of the launch of such a creative IP.”
 
 

 
Client: Bungie

Production: Antibody
Director: Patrick Clair, Raoul Marks
GUIS: Michael Rigley
Spaceship: Paul Chadeisson
Storyboards: Lance Slaton
Editor: Arielle Zakowski

Soundtrack: Justice “Heavy Metal”
Remixed: SebastiAn