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Dante's Inferno begins production; based on game and poem
Electronic Arts Inc. and Starz Media's Film Roman announced the start of production on an animated movie based on Dante's Inferno.
The feature-length project will expand on the story in EA's new game coming out for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2010, which in turn is based on part one of Dante Alighieri's epic Italian poem The Divine Comedy.
Just as the poem and game take players on a stunning journey through the nine circles of hell, the Dante's Inferno animated feature will also follow Dante as he travels through limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery in search of his true love, Beatrice.
To give added distinction among each of the nine circles, EA and Film Roman (co-producers) are commissioning unique visions from multiple studios with experience creating some of the top anime in the industry to tell this classic story.
Film Roman's Joe Goyette (Dead Space: Downfall) is the producer on the project. Victor Cook (The Spectacular Spider-Man, Hellboy Animated: Blood & Iron) is directing, and Brandon Auman (Iron Man: Armored Adventures) is writing.
By boygenius at 4:14 PM ON 03/30/09
Interesting, but how are they making a game when Dante was basically given a tour?
By Sylver at 4:44 PM ON 03/30/09
Given the (lack of) quality of the animated Dead Space movie this is hardly great news. If anything I found that the Dead Space movie detracted from the game due to the differing artisitic styles. These companies should stick to one genre as let us face it movies based on video games are usually dire. The only one I can actually recommend would be Silent Hill and even that wasn't without gaping flaws...
By Bluesman at 5:27 PM ON 03/30/09
Ok, moderately interesting, but why don't they make a movie of the book by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle? Game based movies as a whole are usually bad though there are a very few exceptions.
By adrian at 6:53 PM ON 04/23/09
what book by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle? and is it better than Dante Alighieri's "INFERNO"?
By godhi at 6:56 AM ON 05/28/09
The book in question is "Inferno" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, a modern retelling of the epic poem by Dante. The authors recently released a sequel entitled "Escape from Hell" which is just as good as the first novel but is more satirical in nature. Both are well worth reading.
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