Although not many plot details were made public, we know that it was to revolve around Betsy, a woman that Travis becomes infatuated with and fails to court in the events of the movie. It is from this point that we would begin the second part of Travis’ story as told in the game. This downward spiral culminates in a shootout, after which Travis seems to be hailed as a vigilante-like hero by the media and manages to avoid prosecution for his actions. Throughout the movie, Travis’ sanity erodes as he not only deals with his own personal demons and frustrations, but with what he perceives to be the moral decay of society around him. However, while Scarface presented a “what if” scenario for its narrative that left the source material largely undisturbed, Taxi Driver would effectively be a direct sequel to the film.įor the uninitiated, in it we follow Travis Bickle: a disturbed and antisocial Vietnam War veteran, played by Robert De Niro, who works nights as a cab driver in New York City. In a move that would somewhat resemble the video game adaptation of Scarface, the main story of Taxi Driver would pick up after the ending of the film. I negotiated a deal and Majesco signed the licensing, making the game an officially licensed Taxi Driver game.” Once the game was signed, I immediately reached out to Mark Caplan (Sony Pictures), to secure the rights to the film license.
Majesco picked up the game and invested approximately $2.5 MM in the title. “The game was brought to us in 2005 by Papaya Studios, an external developer. He kindly agreed to talk to us about what went on behind the scenes and how the idea for the adaptation came about. We reached out to Dan Kitchen, the executive producer of Taxi Driver during his time at Majesco, the game’s publisher. This would be the fate of Taxi Driver, and its cancellation would be significantly more mysterious than any other. Some, however, would be quietly abandoned shortly after their announcement, leaving gamers to wonder years later if these had simply been figments of their imagination from a time when the news of video games based on beloved movies was so common that any title could have been a reality. Its brethren carried such names as The Godfather, Scarface, Dirty Harry, Jaws, The Warriors and From Russia With Love and, surprisingly, most of them would actually come out to positive critical and fan reception, something almost unheard of in the movie tie-in side of the video game industry. With a release planned for 2006, Taxi Driver was being developed by Papaya Studio for the Xbox and the Playstation 2 and would receive a fair amount of attention in 2005, attention it found itself sharing with the tidal wave of video game adaptations of classic movies that swept the industry around that time. Taxi Driver was to be a video game adaptation of the 1976 movie of the same name, directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader.
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