Hell just keeps popping up. So, there is a Dante’s Inferno video game coming out and there is movie coming out that is based on the video game. Now, there is another movie coming out; this time, it is an animated version.

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Yosemite Sam in Hell

Hell just keeps popping up. So, there is a Dante’s Inferno video game coming out and there is movie coming out that is based on the video game. Now, there is another movie coming out; this time, it is an animated version.

Hell depicted in a cartoon? Well, it has been done before (see image above as Yosemite Sam decends via an escalator). But this time the cartoon is a full-length movie … I think. This movie will go straight to DVD and will probably be available at the same time as the video game and may even come packaged with the video game. Why? Because this animated movie is headed up by EA, makers of the video game.

EA has done this before with one of their other franchises, Dead Space. It proved to be successful (so much so that apparently there is a theatrical-release movie in the works). It is good to see that EA is going all out with the Inferno. “A” for effort, so far.

Going one step further, EA is having separate animation studios each handle a different circle of Dante’s Hell. That means nine different studios designing one circle each. Now that is a creative approach. Each area of the Inferno would have a different tone, look, and feel. Hmm, this direct-to-DVD release could possibly turn out to be the best of these three takes on the Inferno (the movie, the video game, and the cartoon).

I continue to watch this news with great interest.

Source: Ben Fritz report from Variety