SEATTLE — Airtight Games’ debut video-game title, “Dark
Void,” doesn’t go on sale until January, but it just hit one out of the
park.
Capcom, which will publish the game, just announced movie
star Brad Pitt’s production company bought “Dark Void’s” film rights
and is developing it “as a sci-fi action franchise and potential starring
vehicle for Pitt.”
It won’t take much to turn “Dark Void” into a
movie. The game features a 1950s pilot who crashes into the Bermuda Triangle
and enters a realm where survivors are assembling weapons and jetpacks from
salvaged parts and battling aliens and flying saucers.
Developer Airtight was started by a group of mostly
ex-Microsoft game developers in 2004 and backed by former Microsoft Game
Studios boss Ed Fries.
The film rights were acquired by Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment
and its partner, Reliance BIG Entertainment, part of the Indian Reliance
conglomerate.
“As a game, ‘Dark Void’ was developed with a widescreen
mentality — a world full of adventure presented in cinematic scope and
scale,” Germaine Gioia, senior vice president of licensing at Capcom, said
in a news release.
Airtight, based in Redmond, Wash., held its “Dark
Void” shipping party Wednesday night in Seattle, Fries said, and
“everyone is happy and excited to see where things go from here.”
Fries said he didn’t have more details about the movie deal,
which was handled by Capcom, “but it sure will be cool if it
happens.”
The $60 game is being released Jan. 19 for the Xbox 360,
PlayStation 3 and PC.
Via McClatchy-Tribune News Service.
