MUMBAI: Reliance Big Entertainment (RBE), under its creative partnership deal with Brad Pitt’s production company Plan B Entertainment, has reached an agreement to produce a sci-fi film Dark Void, based on an upcoming video game with the same name.
The two companies have taken film rights from its developer and publisher Capcom.
The theatrical version of the Dark Void will be developed as a sci-fi action franchise by RBE and Plan B Entertainment, as a part of the development and production financing deal (termed a creative partnership) which was announced at the Cannes Film Festival last year.
RBE chairman Amit Khanna commented, “We are delighted that our creative partnership with Plan B has led to this agreement to develop the Dark Void motion picture based on Dark Void.”
Dark Void (the game) is a new property from Capcom, which will be released on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 computer entertainment systems and PC in North America on 19 January, 2010 and across Europe on 22 January.
“As a game, Dark Void was developed with a wide-screen mentality - a world full of adventure presented in cinematic scope and scale,” said Capcom Entertainment Sr VP licensing Germaine Gioia. “Plan B recognised the potential of our newest property and is as excited about bringing Dark Void to life in cinemas as Capcom is to bring the interactive experience to home theatres.”
Dark Void is a blend of aerial and ground-pounding combat which centres on Will, a pilot who crash lands in the Bermuda Triangle following a routine mission. Will wakes up to find himself in “The Void,” an alternate world resembling a primitive earth where aliens with superior technology are planning to take over civilization. Together with a faction of humans who have disappeared into the Void, Will takes on the alien race using their own advanced technology including a high-powered jet pack to defeat them and keep order in the civilized world.
The deal was brokered by CAA on behalf of RBE and Plan B, and by UTA on behalf of Capcom. Plan B was additionally represented in the deal by Jon Liebman and Cynthia Pett-Dante at Brillstein Entertainment Partners.
