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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.
Sony returns to their own Marvel universe with the upcoming Kraven the Hunter, which has been bumped all over the release schedule. This week, it’s been bumped once more.
There was a time when Sony was going to unleash Kraven in theaters in October 2023, but the film was then bumped to August 2024. It’ll now release on December 13, 2024.
Kraven the Hunter will be the very first Marvel movie from Sony to be released into theaters with an “R” rating, with lots of bloody violence being promised.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as the title character, Marvel’s ultimate predator.
“Kraven the Hunter is the visceral story about how and why one of Marvel’s most iconic villains came to be. Set before his notorious vendetta with Spider-Man, Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as the titular character in the R-rated film.”
Ariana DeBose will play Calypso in the upcoming Kraven the Hunter movie.
Christopher Abbott (Possessor) is playing The Foreigner, with Levi Miller (Better Watch Out) also on board. Alessandro Nivola (The Many Saints of Newark) will play another villain, but character details are under wraps. Russell Crowe and Fred Hechinger also star.
J.C. Chandor (A Most Violent Year) is directing Kraven the Hunter.
The screenplay was written by Art Marcum & Matt Holloway and Richard Wenk.
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