This book to movie/game (or game to book/movie) thing is sure doing well. Aside from rumblings about a Gears of War flick, BioShock, and others, a few new ones have cropped up: Dante's Inferno, Army of Two, and nerd favourite Mass Effect (we're part of that camp, don't worry).
Dan Harris (X2, Superman Returns) of Universal Pictures is set to write the screenplay for Dante's Inferno, based on the upcoming game from EA Redwood Shores, in turn based on the 14th century poem The Divine Comedy, which sees Dante Aligheri journeying to Hollywood to enact vengeance on...I mean, travelling through Hell; Universal acquired the film last fall in a four-studio bidding war before the game was even given a title.
Interestingly, EA will be directly involved, with their VP Patrick O'Brien and creator Jonathan Knight onboard for its development; Strike Entertainment's Marc Abraham and Eric Newman are also named.
As for the other EA properties being adapted for the silver screen, Army of Two will be live-action, with Scott Z. Burns (The Bourne Ultimatum) set as scriptwriter and Scott Stuber as producer, The Simswill be from Fox and producer John Davis, with Mass Effect being produced by Avi Arad (behind every other comic book and video game adapation since the early 90s).
Mass Effect 2 confirmed for early 2010
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