Guybrush Threepwood

Dominic loves point and click.

His dream role before he landed it was Guybrush.

And he'd already said, like, if I could do any, because he was like a child actually used to do stuff, you know, in TV cartoons and things.

But what I really love is, like, I would just love to be Guybrush because Guybrush by that point didn't have a voice, you know, in the first two.

So he's like, he's there kind of doing the voice of Guybrush when he's playing it.

And he's like, I really want this gig.

And then he got a phone call from his agent basically saying, Oh, do you want to come into this? And he said, I think he said he didn't even know what it was.

And he was like, this is literally like, if I don't get this, my life is over.

There were places in Return of Monkey Island, I don't remember more than a few of them, where we would set up a region in a room.

And when the actor or Guybrush walked into that region, then we would switch to maybe a fuller orchestration of the same theme or into a different style.

I remember in the scum bar, we did that as you got closer to where the pirates on the far right were.

And I think there were a couple other places where that was implemented.

That was your era.

That was the run of, like, your prime business that LucasArts really took off, and you had all the, you know, the guy-brushed Threepwood stuff, and all these things were just killing it.

And this is smack in the middle of it, and I didn't even know about it, but I think this is a really good, solid...

One of these.

And I think it's kind of more agency of like we are telling a story together.

So it becomes less like I am Guybrush Threepwood and I am in a pirate story and more like I am part of a group of people who are all telling a story about a pirate together.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, I see what you mean.

This is just a demonstration.

Captain's log, Guybrush Threepwood.

Lost at sea for days now, and I have no crew or navigational instruments.

No provisions except a half-eaten corn dog, and unless I find water soon, I'm surely done for.

Giant potted plant.

Where do you put that? Like Guybrush Threepwood.

Just like open up your pants and drop it in like a cartoon character.

He likes touching the button.

Yeah.

And now, like, and now you're, you're in the room, and you're like, did you ever have a moment where people are like, "That's not how Guybrush is," where you're like, "I understand these people," and then [laughs]

Gosh, uh, I, I have a c- a couple of thoughts about that, but the first thing-

Please, please

Yeah.

Yeah.

Uh, I guess the, the, the other thing that we talked about a lot at the beginning of the game was the characterization of Guybrush, LeChuck, and Elaine, which was...

That was the part that was like, is, are we gonna...

There's a guy with a...

There's a user named Guybrush Lathreepwood.

I just have to say that, dude, back in the 90s, I was all about LucasArts adventure games on PC.

And the Monkey Island series were incredible.

It's October 15th, 1990, and another remarkable event is about to be uncovered by Aria, Rebecca, and Ali, the Retrospectors.

My name is Guybrush Threepwood.

Prepare to die.

Words I've never said out loud before, but did say on screen hundreds of times when I was 10 years old, playing Lucasfilm's revolutionary adventure game, The Secret of Monkey Island, released today in history in 1990 on PC, Mac and Atari.

And I think what was so clever about getting you to be immersed in that when you are a child, and a lot of people playing this were kids, is that you're playing the part of a very young man.

There was, for a brief time, a floated Monkey Island film that was in development by Amblin.

And they described Guybrush Threepwood, the protagonist, as no more than 20 years old when there was a casting brief.

And that's exactly right, isn't it? He's a probably late teenage boy who wants to be a pirate.