Devil May Cry film in the works

[Alchemyst]

Well, here is something interesting... Devil May Cry big screen adaptation is in the works! Based on the highly successful and popular video game franchise, Dante is finally coming to the big screen.

From Variety:

"In hopes of kickstarting its newest genre franchise, Screen Gems has purchased feature film rights to vidgame publisher Capcom's hit series "Devil May Cry."

Kyle Ward has been hired to pen the script, which revolves around the character of Dante, who avenges his mother's murder by killing off demons."
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Now, we are all aware of the bad movies based on video games, but this really has a potential to be something unique and epic.

And here is a brief summary of the game courtesy of IMDb:

2,000 years ago the human world was ruled over by the demon world. However, one of the demons, the legendary dark knight Sparda, awoke to justice and defeating the evil emperor Mundus sealed the demon world away from the human world. He then sealed his own darkest powers away (fearing he would become a threat to the humans himself) and assumed a human form, living among the humans, and for 2000 years he preserved the harmony of the worlds. Eventually Sparda fell in love with a human woman called Eva and had twin half blood sons, Dante and Vergil. However, Sparda died, and shortly after, Eva was killed in a demon attack that separated the two sons. Hating the demons for taking away his mother and his brother from him, Dante becomes a demon hunter and continues his fathers work, seeking revenge.

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/Wolvie09/news/?a=31000

I'm not too happy about this....NO,NO,NO,NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[terry78]

Screen Gems? Sony's modest budget off-shoot?

 

[Wolfwood]

I can't imagine anyone well known to play Dante...I hope they don't stray too far from his character, I love his cheesy quality.

 

[Rob Lobo]

get Rueben Langdon himself to be Dante!

http://www.reubenlangdon.com/

 

[Wolfwood]

Oh that's awesome, I never knew that guy did the voice and motion cap for Dante. He'd actually be an excellent pick. Not sure how old he looks now though, might need to de-age him a bit.