…and the Universal studio executives are happy about their new destination. The reason: the studio has purchased the rights to make a movie based on a video game that’s so new, it hasn’t even been officially revealed as being in development.
The game is coming from Electronic Arts and is reportedly based on Dante’s Inferno, the 14th century epic poem that chronicles the descent into Hell. The game was quietly shopped around to potential film studios last week and four bidders emerged: Universal, New Regency, Paramount Pictures and MGM. By Sunday the winner had emerged. Variety reports that Universal paid an option fee against a final bill that will come in somewhere in the seven figures. Strike Entertainment (who made Dawn of the Dead, Children of Men and Slither) and Electronic Arts will be producing entities on the project.
Even with the movie deal making news EA still hasn’t officially confirmed that they have this game in development but I can make some guesses: players will have to travel through the nine levels of Hell, encounter demons and complete trials to advance to the next level down. The bigger mystery is what the game/film’s protagonist will be and why he/she is on the journey in the netherworld.
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