Gamer is a 2009 American science fiction action thriller film written and directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. The film stars Gerard Butler as a participant in an online game in which participants can control human beings as players, and Logan Lerman as the player who controls him. Gamer was released in North America on September 4, 2009 and the United Kingdom on September 16, 2009. In a near-future New York, eccentric Ken Castle has revolutionized the gaming industry with his invention of self-replicating nanites that replace existing brain cells and allow full control of all motor... functions by a third party. The first major application of this technology is a game called Society, which allows gamers to control a real person in a pseudo community . This generally boils down to the players engaging in all manner of debauchery, such as deliberately injuring their "characters", engaging in sex with random people, and eating disgusting things because they don't actually have to taste it.
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| Release date: | September 3, 2009 |
| Directed by: | Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 95 Minutes |
| Producer: | Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, Richard S. Wright, Skip Williamson |
| Editor: | Peter Amundson, Doobie White, Fernando Villena |
| Music by: | Geoff Zanelli, Robb Williamson |
| Cinematography: | Ekkehart Pollack |
| Screenplay by: | Brian Taylor, Mark Neveldine |
| Estimated budget: | $50,000,000 |
| Genre: | Science Fiction, Thriller, Action |