To help launch one of its newest game properties last year,
EA teamed with Starz Media to produce the full-length animated feature Dead Space: Downfall. Today, EA and the cable channel announced a similar animated collaboration based on another EA Redwood Shores-developed horror game, Dante's Inferno.
As with
Dead Space: Downfall, Starz Media's internal studio Film Roman will be producing
Dante's Inferno. The production house is best known for its work on popular animated television series such as Fox's
The Simpsons and
King of the Hill. Joe Goyette, who also worked on
Dead Space: Downfall, will serve as producer on the project, with Victor Cook (
Hellboy Animated: Blood Iron) directing and Brandon Auman (
Iron Man: Armored Adventures) writing.
Similar to the upcoming Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC title, which is due in early 2010,
Dante's Inferno will be based on the first part of Dante Alighieri's epic poem
The Divine Comedy, penned in the early 14th century. The story will follow Dante and Virgil's descent through the bowels of hell, journeying "through limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery in search of his true love, Beatrice."
In addition to Dead Space and Dante's Inferno, EA plans to team with Starz on a third game-based animated film. For more on Dante's Inferno, check out
GameSpot's first hands-on from February.
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