Looks like Brad Pitt is entering the realm of video game film adaptations as his production company, Plan B Entertainment, has bought the film rights to Dark Void, a game that will release in January of next year.

Dark Void is a game being developed by Airtight Games and published by Capcom where players take control of 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.

It sounds like a cool concept and apparently Pitt and Plan B see the potential in it. Germaine Gioia, senior vice president of licensing at Capcom, says “As a game, Dark Void was developed with a wide-screen mentality - a world full of adventure presented in cinematic scope and scale, “Plan B recognized the potential of our newest property and are as excited about bringing Dark Void to life in cinemas as Capcom is to bring the interactive experience to home theaters.”

Sound like an excuse to make a spiritual Rocketeer sequel to me.

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