Christian Cantamessa

Christian Cantamessa (born October 4, 1976) is an Italian-American writer, director, and video game creator best known as lead designer and co-writer of ''Red Dead Redemption'' and the ''Manhunt'' series, designer on ''Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas'', and writer of ''Middle-earth: 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'', ''Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor'', and ''Middle-earth: 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, world-building and cinematic direction for the reboot of ''Perfect Dark'' with Xbox's 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 co-Game Director on a new original game IP. Provided by Wikipedia