10 Upcoming Video Game Movies That Absolutely Nobody Asked For
9. Dantes Inferno
In 2008, EA auctioned off the film rights to a game they were publishing in the near future. Despite not knowing the games plot, genre, source material, potential popularity or even its damn name, Universal forked over a seven-figure sum for the property. Eventually titled Dantes Inferno, the game was a forgettable hack n slash thats totally nothing like God of War you guys. Critically and commercially, it was met with a chorus of shrugs, and the movie never eventuated. The End. Well, not quite. That was in 2010, and no matter how logical and thematically appropriate it was that the Dantes Inferno movie would languish in limbo, rumblings as recent as September last year have shown that Universal refuse to let it die. The director of the Evil Dead reboot (speaking of things that wont die) is now attached, and the script has gone through several rewrites. Maybe all this is just another long-tail publicity stunt from EAs bag of tricks. Its not that big a stretch considering that, before launch, they sent parcels designed to aggravate journalists and goad them into the sin of Wrath, and staged fake religious protests about the game. Suddenly, keeping the movie plans alive for three years past its prime seems appropriately cruel.
