Fede Alvarez, who staged the not-so-bad Evil Dead remake, is now set to film the game «Dante's Inferno», which is of course a version of Dante Alighieri's «Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy)». The game is a decent hack 'n' slash adventure (see the trailer below) and I have a lot of credit for Alvarez now that he was at Raimi's school. Of course it won't be a masterpiece and at most a trashy implementation full of gigantic devils and demons, but maybe that's exactly what the heavy, historical material is good for.
Fede Alvarez, the Uruguayan helmer who went from the statement-making short Panic Attack to the Evil Dead remake, is in talks to direct Dante's Inferno. Universal Pictures is setting him to helm the live action adaptation of the Electronic Arts video game, which is rooted in the famous literary work. [...] The protagonist, Dante Aligheri is a knight who with the help of the poet Virgil ventures into the nine rings of hell to rescue his beloved Beatrice. In the process, he becomes an unwitting pawn in an ancient war between heaven and hell.