Christian Cantamessa

Christian Cantamessa born October 4 1976 is an ItalianAmerican writer director and video game creator best known as lead designer and cowriter of Red Dead Redemption and the Manhunt series designer on Grand Theft Auto San Andreas and writer of Middleearth Shadow of Mordor He is also the founder and CEO of Sleep Deprivation Lab which is a production company and video game consulting firm known for work on Rise of the Tomb Raider The Crew Forza Horizon Middleearth Shadow of Mordor and Middleearth Shadow of War He also was the director and writer of Air a feature film released in 2015 starring Norman Reedus Djimon Hounsou and Sandrine Holt In December 2020 it was revealed that Cantamessa was working on story worldbuilding and cinematic direction for the reboot of Perfect Dark with Xboxs The Initiative studio He has since left the project In October 2024 Cantamessa announced that he had founded a new game development company called Day 4 Night Studios in collaboration with longtime friend Davide Soliani creator of Mario Rabbids Kingdom Battle and its sequel Cantamessa is currently the coGame Director on a new original game IP Description above from the Wikipedia article Christian Cantamessa licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia