Dante's Inferno

[Galactus]

Universal Pictures Takes Dante's Inferno
Source: Variety November 2, 2008


Universal Pictures has won a bidding battle for an unreleased Electronic Arts video game that Variety says will be called "Dante's Inferno" by the time it hits the marketplace next year.

The agreement is the second the studio has made in recent weeks for an EA video game. The first one was "Army of Two," which has Scott Z. Burns (The Bourne Ultimatum) aboard to write the script and Scott Stuber to produce with EA.

Strike Entertainment partners Eric Newman and Marc Abraham will produce with EA. EA Entertainment vice president Patrick J. O'Brien and game creator Jonathan Knight will be closely involved in the development of the film.

Both the "Dante's Inferno" game and movie involve a journey through the depths of hell.

[matrix_ghost]

ANyone else think Universal will ditch this project somewhere in the near future.
I'd love to see this movie getting made but when Uni is struggling to get a high profile game like Bioshock going and with the whole Halo debacle , i dunno if we're going to get to see this flick being made by Uni.

[Figs]

Originally Posted by matrix_ghost

ANyone else think Universal will ditch this project somewhere in the near future.
I'd love to see this movie getting made but when Uni is struggling to get a high profile game like Bioshock going and with the whole Halo debacle , i dunno if we're going to get to see this flick being made by Uni.

Most likely and I personally hope they do.

At first I thought it was going to be an adaptation of the book but when I heard it's going to be a movie based on a video game(which will most likely butcher the book) I think I'll pass.

[matrix_ghost]

Originally Posted by Figs

Most likely and I personally hope they do.

At first I thought it was going to be an adaptation of the book but when I heard it's going to be a movie based on a video game(which will most likely butcher the book) I think I'll pass.

It's a videogame. What did you expect ? Players thinking "wow , it's fun watching these guys talk all day. Screw HALO , this is teh best game evah ! "

The game itself let's the player go down the levels of hell battling everyone o save his love.
It's one of those visual movies like 300. The story is paperthin but the visuals are what draw you.

Also i could've sworn i read somewhere that they really are making a proper Dante's Inferno movie.

[Figs]

Originally Posted by matrix_ghost

It's a videogame. What did you expect ? Players thinking "wow , it's fun watching these guys talk all day. Screw HALO , this is teh best game evah ! "

Umm....no.

The game itself let's the player go down the levels of hell battling everyone o save his love.
It's one of those visual movies like 300. The story is paperthin but the visuals are what draw you.

Also i could've sworn i read somewhere that they really are making a proper Dante's Inferno movie.

It might be cool visually but don't care for them to take a great book/story and, as you said, steroid it out and dumb it down to make it all badass like 300. I'm mainly talking about the movie, I do understand a game made very close to the original story wouldn't be much fun.

I'm just saying they should leave the movie idea alone.

[matrix_ghost]

Originally Posted by Figs

It might be cool visually but don't care for them to take a great book/story and, as you said, steroid it out and dumb it down to make it all badass like 300. I'm mainly talking about the movie, I do understand a game made very close to the original story wouldn't be much fun.

I'm just saying they should leave the movie idea alone.

Meh i'm interested
But i don't think that this will see the light of day

Reasons probably are this movie just being too expensive. Universal has had some costly misfires in the past and i think now with new studio exec. being charge , they'll take a different approach in making new movies.

[KenK]

Can't wait for the animated feature, though. Some of the people involved in Dead Space: Downfall, and that movie was just fantastic.

[Timstuff]

The game looks derivative and the developers don't seem to "get" the source material, so I'd be surprised if this actually gets made into a live action movie. The game has actually become the butt of quite a few jokes in the video game community, so it's not off to a good start in terms of reputation and it's not even out yet.

[Sentinel X]

At first I thought they meant the poem Dante's Inferno....which would actually be pretty cool and unique to make a movie off of.

[Fresh Prince]

Since the video game is nothing like the poem, they should just make a movie based off the poem.