If you saw The Game Awards this year, the guy that ranted about how passionate he was about his game (under the guise of being "jetlagged") is the guy that directed this movie.
Of course his films will never get recognized by the Oscars because they're right up there with Adam Sandler movies. It's good he took his work to video games since he does not have to worried about being turned down by film commissions in his native Sweden.
I remember when I saw this movie at school (I'm from Finland, it was a Swedish lesson), and when I saw this beginning scene, I was like "What the fuck I just watched?" Awesome scene!
You know I know this guy was a director before he done video games it's kind of weird to realize this is coming from the same guy who did brothers, a way out and it takes two also the guy who likes to hate the Oscars really cool guy I'm still surprised on how the hell does it takes 2 over game of the year over games like Metroid dread or Resident Evil Village
Bollywood actually copied this scene in Om Shanti Om, where Akshay Kumar plays a cameo and is introduced in return of khiladi, remember the award scene