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“Look me in the eye when I’m talking to you,” says the “super assassin” played by Michelle Rodriguez in this trailer for The Limit, but you might need goggles to get the most out of her demand: The Limit is Robert Rodriguez’s 20-minute Virtual Reality action film first teased last spring at Mip TV in Cannes.

The Limit, co-starring The Walking Dead‘s Norman Reedus, comes from STXsurreal, the Vr and Immersive content division of Stx Entertainment, is available starting today as a paid app download across all major Vr platforms. It’s available in 3-D and 2-D versions at www.TheLimitVR.com.

Rodriguez stars as an “enhanced super-assassin” known as M-13. You – the viewer – are a rogue agent “with a mysterious past,” and M-13 has been enlisted to help you retrieve your identity and strike against the deadly organization that created you.

Rodriguez told Deadline at Mip TV that, new technology aside, The Limit is a “full-blown Rodriguez action flick.” He said he’s considering The Limit as a franchise, and would be interested in taking some of his previous films into the Vr world.

The Limit, shot entirely in Austin, was directed by Rodriguez from a script by himself and son Racer Max Rodriguez. Executive Producers are Andy Vick and Rick Rey, Co-Presidents of Virtual Reality & Immersive Entertainment, STXsurreal. Production companies are STXsurreal and Double R Productions, and the VFX company is Dneg.

The Limit is a paid app download available across major Vr platforms. To mark the launch, a sale price has been set at $4.99 for Vr headset platforms, and $3.99 for mobile platforms, Google Play and iOS.

Check out the trailer above and let us know what you think.

STXsurreal, the VR studio for Robert Simonds’ STX Entertainment, announced on Tuesday the launch of The Limit, a new VR film from director Robert Rodriguez.

Michelle Rodriguez, Norman Reedus, "and You" star in the immersive new story from Rodriguez, a 20-minute action movie captured in a new VR format that stretches wider than 180 degrees. It’s designed to bridge the gap between traditional, large-format filmmaking and newer 360-degree video.

In The Limit, you, the viewer, play a rogue agent with a mysterious past who enlists the help of enhanced super-assassin M-13 (Michelle Rodriguez) to retrieve your identity and strike against the deadly organization that created you.

Michelle Rodriguez co-wrote and stars in high-octane work as “genetically enhanced weapon of mass destruction”.

Cult Us filmmaker Robert Rodriguez previewed his upcoming action Vr work The Limit, starring Michelle Rodriguez as a genetically enhanced weapon of mass destruction hellbent on destroying the covert agency that created her, at Miptv on Tuesday, in its first ever world sneak peek.

The project is the first production to come from a pipeline of high-end Vr works featuring top Hollywood talent currently being produced by STXsurreal, the Vr and immersive content division of Stx Entertainment.

STXsurreal’s co-founders Rick Rey and Andy Vick...

From Dusk Til Dawn and Sin City filmmaker Robert Rodriguez is cooking up a raft of virtual reality film projects after revealing the first glimpse of his forthcoming Vr action thriller The Limit.

Rodriguez was at Mip TV in Cannes to attend a Deadline-hosted panel session all about the nascent technology and lift the lid on the challenges of producing content for the format.

He gave the audience the first look at the trailer for The Limit, which stars Michelle Rodriguez as a genetically enhanced weapon of mass destruction hellbent on destroying the covert agency that created her. The blow ‘em up is produced by Robert Rodriguez’s Double R Productions, which he set up with his son Racer, and will premiere on Stx Entertainment’s Vr channel STXsurreal, run by Rick Rey and Andy Vick. The app launches on Vr headsets in mid 2018.

Rodriguez tells Deadline that he had...

Robert Simonds’ ambitious Los Angeles-based studio has snapped up the immersive content creator in a bid to build a multi-faceted Vr operation.

The latest corporate play by Stx, which last week announced investment from Asian powerhouses Pccw and Tencent, will see Surreal co-founders Rick Rey and Andy Vick become co-presidents of Vr and immersive entertainment at Stx.

Rey (pictured at right) and Vick (pictured at left) have produced more than 70 experiences in the last year that have attracted more than 35m views across platforms.

Stx plans to bring in more staff to the new division as it continues to develop original Vr films, TV series and branded programming, as well as immersive derivatives of Stx properties.

“Virtual reality is exploding, and Stx sees a unique opportunity to create one-of-a-kind content by pairing the world’s biggest stars and storytellers with best-in-class Vr capabilities,” said Stx Entertainment president Sophie Watts, who will oversee the new division.

“Rick and Andy...

Everyone and their brother is getting into the virtual reality game as word comes now that Stx Entertainment has acquired Surreal Inc., a producer and distributor of immersive content. Under terms of the deal, Surreal will operate as a division of Stx, led by co-founders Rick Rey and Andy Vick, who now will serve as co-presidents of Vr and Immersive Entertainment under the new Stx Surreal label. Overseeing the new division will be Stx president Sophie Watts. And we can…...

Everyone and their brother is getting into the virtual reality game as word comes now that Stx Entertainment has acquired Surreal Inc., a producer and distributor of immersive content. Under terms of the deal, Surreal will operate as a division of Stx, led by co-founders Rick Rey and Andy Vick, who now will serve as co-presidents of Vr and Immersive Entertainment under the new Stx Surreal label. Overseeing the new division will be Stx president Sophie Watts. And we can…...

It’s been the white whale for filmmakers for years, with the likes of Steven Spielberg and Seth Rogen trying to shoot their remake spears into The Last Starfighter. But after years of brushing aside every request, original writer and rights-holder Jonathan Betuel is spearheading not a new film, but a TV series that will only obliquely reference the 1984 original.The film, which some may fondly remember from the early days of home VHS machines (it was the first film this writer’s family rented), The Last Starfighter was the story of Alex Rogan (Lance Guest), a video game-obsessed teenager who becomes Starfighter’s highest scorer and is whisked off to help fight in a massive alien conflict. Although initially reticent, he agrees when he discovers that the enemy has wiped out most of the pilots who trained with him.Despite his own stand against remakes in the years, Betuel...

Over thirty years on, the sci-fi cult classic "The Last Starfighter" is set to get a revival in a whole new arena.

The original film's scribe Jonathan Betuel has teamed with the La-based Surreal.tv to work on "The Starfighter Chronicles," a new TV series based on the project which will also be the first TV series to embrace virtual reality.

The original film saw a teenage video-game fan thrown into outer space to fight in an interstellar war. The new series however will be a serialized story about alien law enforcement and "instilling a moral code".

While the show will be viewable on plain old TVs, certain sequences will allow viewers equipped with virtual reality headsets to break the frame and look around the scene's environments in all directions.

Surreal's Andy Vick and Rick Rey are also helping develop the project which is still in very early stages.

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