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It's been a very interesting last few years for Jason Hall. He first became well known as a game developer and later game industry executive who helped to found developer Monolith (creators of games like Blood, Shogo and No One Lives Forever). Hall then became the head of Warner Bros. Interactive in 2004 and helped to launch a number of titles for the company including the original F.E.A.R. In 2007, Hall decided to leave the game industry, at least on a day to day basis, with the founding of HDFilms, a multi-media development studio in Hollywood.

Despite becoming a full-fledged Hollywood producer, Hall told Big Download recently in a phone interview that he's still a gamer at heart, "I grew up playing games," he told use, "and it always pissed me off how video game culture is depicted in the media. The masses in general have this very specific viewpoint of what these people are like." Hall said that the video game culture is, in his opinion, everywhere you look. " Today, either you play video games or you know someone who does," he says.

If you are old as dirt like we are you may remember the great 1983 mini-series V, a sci-fi allegory of the Nazis rise to power in the form of aliens called the Vistoros. They said they came to Earth wanting peace but they turned out to be lizards who want to eat us and take our water. The mini-series spawned a sequel and a short lived TV series but remains one of the most admired sci-fi TV efforts.

Now Variety has word that ABC and Warner Bros. are trying to get a remake of V off the ground. One of the executive producers is none other than Jace Hall, founder of Monolith and former head of Warner Bros. Interactive. He currently is the head of HDFilms (and star of the web series the Jace Hall Show). Variety states that Hall will lead the effort to get the V remake into other platforms, including games. So it may be a matter of time before the Visitors return and appear on your hard drive.