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‘Dante’s Inferno’ Game ALSO Being Adapted to Anime
Didja enjoy a little of that animated Dead Space: Downfall feature from Anchor Bay and Starz? If so, they have more video game adaptations up their sleeve as Electronic Arts and Starz Media are readying their second animated feature, Dante’s Inferno, based on the videogame bowing next year. This is not to be confused with Universal Pictures’ feature film adaptation also in the works — but if you’ve been following the progress, this release is the first time the actual pot has been revealed. Enter the circles of hell below!
Film Roman, a subsid of Starz, will produce “Dante’s Inferno”, as it did with “Dead Space: Downfall,” which was distribbed by Starz in the fall and was tied to the release of EA’s high-profile sci-fi horror vidgame “Dead Space.”
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“Inferno” will mirror the game’s plot and follow Dante’s journey through the nine circles of Hell — limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery — in search of his true love, Beatrice.
Both are based on part one of Dante’s classic poem “The Divine Comedy,” better known as “Dante’s Inferno.”
Separate anime studios are being commissioned to create the nine circles of Hell.
Film Roman’s Joe Goyette (“Dead Space: Downfall”) is the producer on the project, which Victor Cook (“The Spectacular Spider-Man,” “Hellboy Animated: Blood & Iron”) is directing and Brandon Auman (“Iron Man: Armored Adventures”) is writing.
Game bows on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 next year. It’s being developed at EA Redwood Shores.
“The animated feature will be a great companion piece to the game,” said Jonathan Knight, executive producer and creative director for “Dante’s Inferno.” “The feature will explore aspects of the poem that the game does not, and will provide more insight into the characters and the unique story adaptation that the game has established.”
Starz Media is pushing the “Dante’s Inferno” toon and “Dead Space: Downfall” at the MIP-TV market this week in Cannes.
Anchor Bay Entertainment will distrib on homevid. Starz Media’s Worldwide Distribution group will handle international television and domestic syndication sales, while Starz Digital Media is overseeing digital distribution.
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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