Brutal Legend Game Drops Dio, Breaks Silly Record

Posted by Dan Rodriguez on Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:01 pm

air-guitar-record Brutal Legend, the much-hyped Jack Black-fronted video game, made a bit of news this week. While Ozzy, Lemmy, Rob Halford and Lita Ford are keeping their guest appearances in the game, Heaven & Hell frontman Ronnie James Dio is out in favor of Tim Curry, best known for The Rocky Horror Picture Show (though he sure was clutch in Clue and Congo).

Surely this slight against our Elfin king Dio must have been some kind of crazy, juicy contractual and/or financial issue, right? Nope, just a regular old casting choice:

“Ronnie James Dio is an amazing singer and truly one of the great figures of Metal, but as the character of Doviculus evolved, we realized that [actor] Tim Curry was a better fit for the part,” [Double Fine chief Tim Shafer] told GameSpot. “Anyone who has seen his amazing performance as the Lord of Darkness in the movie Legend knows why we cast him in the role of Doviculus, Emperor of the Tainted Coil.”

In other BT news, a Guinness World Record was set at UK’s Download Festival this weekend for “most people simultaneously air guitaring” when 440 people crowded around the Brutal Legend/EA Games booth to make fools of themselves.

Tags: Brutal Legend, Heaven & Hell, Ronnie James Dio

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September 24th, 2009 at 4:34 PM

[...] Brutal Legend creator and President of Double Fine Productions Tim Schafer (who also created the much-beloved cult game Pyschonauts) and Musical Director Emily Ridgway took a break from the usual video game press circuit for a special round-table call with Metal Insider and other lowly metal literati to dig deep on making a commercially-viable yet still authentic metal game, bringing in metal legends as talent, picking that insane soundtrack, and metal’s ability to be simultaneously ridiculous and mighty. And yes, someone asked what happened to Dio. [...]

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‘Brutal Legend’ Creator On Metal’s Rise In The Video Game Industry, Toeing The Line Between Reverence and Parody | Metal Insider Says:
September 24th, 2009 at 4:34 PM
[...] Brutal Legend creator and President of Double Fine Productions Tim Schafer (who also created the much-beloved cult game Pyschonauts) and Musical Director Emily Ridgway took a break from the usual video game press circuit for a special round-table call with Metal Insider and other lowly metal literati to dig deep on making a commercially-viable yet still authentic metal game, bringing in metal legends as talent, picking that insane soundtrack, and metal’s ability to be simultaneously ridiculous and mighty. And yes, someone asked what happened to Dio. [...]