Brad Pitt to Enter a Dark Void?

Video game adaptations have always been a tough sell, not least because games are an interactive experience whose narratives are often an afterthought, but mainly because so many of the attempts to adapt a video game have sucked beyond belief.

Directors such as Paul W.S. Anderson and Uwe Boll have looked to bastardise well known gaming franchises resulting in cinematic slop, yet as the games industry looks to make their wares more cinematic it seems Hollywood will keep on until a video game movie transcends its small screen origins.

So as we’re hearing from Variety Brad Pitt’s production company Plan B have teamed with media company Reliance Big Pictures to turn Capcom’s upcoming game Dark Void into a film, with eyes on a franchise.

According to Variety Dark Void centres on “a pilot who crash lands in the Bermuda Triangle following a routine mission and wakes up to find himself in an alternate world resembling a primitive earth where aliens with superior technology are planning to take over civilization”.

What is not clear is whether Pitt is looking to star or just bring this game world to a bigger screen, and the fact that the game is as yet unreleased means one of two things. Either the game is so good that Plan B and Reliance know that the name alone will be enough to sell it, or that both Boll and Anderson turned it down…

Of course this is franchise hopping on the part of the studios, and the Monopoly movie Ridley Scott is involved is another recent example, of the many to choose from, where a movie is deemed the logical next money spinning step for a success, whatever the medium it debuts in.

Until the rumoured Call of Duty movie comes around, it looks as if the world of games and movies will be kept apart by a dark, and necessary void.