It has been revealed that Electronic Arts is creating a Dante’s Inferno video game based on the famous Italian epic poem written by Giovanni Boccaccio in the early 1300s, as reported by Variety’s The Cut blog.
What’s interesting about this is that the game itself, has not even been announced yet, and already EA has been shopping it around to Hollywood movie studios for a feature film based on the game property. Including in the bidding for rights to create the film are Paramount, Universal, MGM and New Regency.
As you’d expect from a video game based on Dante’s Inferno, the game (likely called “Inferno”) will have players fighting through the depths of hell. The game is scheduled for release next year and was copyrighted by EA back in February (for video game, film and TV purposes). No other details including what system’s the game will be for have been released at this time.