Tribeca Fest-Winning Filmmaker Says He Wants to Make a 3D Shooter with Murderous Bunnies and Carrots as Loot

Move implicit GTA 6, a caller Bonnie and Clyde whitethorn beryllium hitting your consoles soon. This time, they’re successful it for the carrots.

Violet and Marlowe Rob a Bank, a 3D animated euphony video from filmmaker Wesley Wang, conscionable won the abbreviated movie grant astatine the 2026 Tribeca Festival. And present the 22-year-old creator has his sights acceptable connected video games. I spoke exclusively with Wang successful the aftermath of his Tribeca triumph connected his plans for adapting the abbreviated into a game, a imaginable theatrical prequel, and the Easter ovum that astir fans missed.

“We person 2 [game ideas] that we're trying to fig out,” Wang says. “It would decidedly beryllium 3D animation, but 1 of them, you're dropped into 1 of these factories and you rob these carrots. Then you travel backmost to this 1 spot wherever you past commercialized successful those carrots for amended furnishings and you physique up your location and you conscionable support going back. It's benignant of similar a archetypal idiosyncratic shooter crippled [in] a repeatable format.

“There's different 1 that would beryllium much story-based wherever you person to implicit a quest. It would decidedly revolve astir Violent and Marlowe robbing these factories oregon banks and amassing carrots successful a mode to revolt against the government.”

Wang, who shares a manager with Backrooms writer-director Kane Parsons, says theaters, streaming, and YouTube are each connected the array erstwhile it comes to his aboriginal successful filmmaking.

“I cognize Kane beauteous well,” Wang says. “We've talked astir this full thought of the creator economy. It’s conscionable a term. I deliberation we're each creators and mediums are conscionable a mode to explicit your art.”

In the abbreviated film, which besides serves arsenic the authoritative euphony video for the New York-based set Adore’s opus “Feel It Again,” Violet and Marlowe are 2 Calico Critters-style bunnies from the countryside who commencement a gyration aft the evil President Rabbit monopolizes the world’s proviso of carrots. The husband-and-wife duo instrumentality matters into their ain hands, committing a bid of convulsive mill heists to shingle up the system.

“I'm beauteous agnostic to wherever my things travel out,” Wang says. “I person a batch of theatrical things I privation to make. It conscionable turns retired that the things that are cheaper to marque and easier to marque are connected digital. One of our large goals with this institution is that everything we marque starts retired online but has a aboriginal successful theaters oregon streaming platforms similar Netflix oregon Hulu.”

Although the abbreviated doesn’t person immoderate bloodshed per se, Wang says the brutality of the storyline was a deliberate choice.

“I [was] down to marque this arsenic convulsive arsenic possible,” Wang says. “We spell afloat Tarantino with this. I deliberation there’s conscionable thing comic astir the juxtaposition betwixt the innocence of bunnies and the unit of what they're really doing. This is big animation [but] the unit is not precise gory. They're evidently bunnies, but they get down to business.”

At the extremity of Violet and Marlowe Rob a Bank, Marlowe sacrifices himself successful bid to instrumentality down President Rabbit. The past changeable sees Violet mourning astatine his graveside. Wang says that, adjacent though Marlowe seemingly meets his end, determination mightiness beryllium much to the story.

“I don’t privation to springiness excessively overmuch away,” Wang says. “But a batch of radical person really pointed retired successful the comments of the YouTube video that if you look astatine the extremity of the short, successful [Violet’s] eyes, you tin spot the reflection of him.”

In portion due to the fact that of the uncertainty astir what really happens astatine the extremity of the story, Wang says that helium has large plans for a feature-length prequel film.

“We bash person a diagnostic that I'm precise passionate about,” Wang says. “We’re going to spell retired with it to a clump of studios. That’s the eventual extremity with this one. I bash privation it to beryllium a prequel.”

Violet and Marlowe Rob a Bank - Written and Directed by Wesley Wang

While Wang has designs connected expanding his filmmaking to theaters oregon prestige streamers, helium says his roots volition ever beryllium successful YouTube and has nary plans to wantonness that platform.

“To me, occurrence is successful some realms,” Wang says. “This YouTube worldly is not a means to an end. The large happening astir these videos is that they unrecorded connected everlastingly and radical tin ticker them two, 3 years aft they get made. And aforesaid happening with films. Even if I [end up like] Christopher Nolan oregon Quentin Tarantino, I'd beryllium inactive making worldly connected YouTube.

“I privation to experimentation with animation. Obviously I'm not the 1 animating, but that’s a mode for maine to inactive get my imaginativeness across. I deliberation there's going to beryllium a batch much genres that I privation to explore. We're moving connected a execution enigma next.”

Michael Peyton is the Senior Editorial Director of Events & Entertainment astatine IGN, starring amusement contented and sum of tentpole events including IGN Live, San Diego Comic Con, gamescom, and IGN Fan Fest. He's spent 20 years moving successful the games and amusement industry, and his adventures person taken him everyplace from the Oscars to Japan to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Follow him connected Bluesky @MichaelPeyton