Movies based on video games have slowly been gaining a foothold in the industry over the last few years. And while most (Doom, Street Fighter, Super Mario Bros.) have been lackluster and even downright terrible, there are certainly a few (Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Silent Hill) that have at least seen enough success to warrant the sequel treatment. Mind you, I’m not saying those ones are good. Just successful. Anyway, video game films may be almost at the point where they’re treated like serious movies – not deep statements on human nature, maybe, but at least real event flicks. The best evidence for this is the current trend of development deals that happen before the game itself is even released – and the latest instance of that involves none other than Brad Pitt.
The game, which has a release date of January 12, 
2010, is already the subject of a development deal between Capcom and Pitt’s shingle, Plan B, to be developed into a possible starring vehicle for the actor. No writer or director has been attached yet.
The game, a third-person shooter, follows the adventures of a pilot named Will who crash-lands in the Bermuda triangle and is whisked away into an alternate dimension. There, he meets a group of other Survivors, and soon learns that the dimension was created as a kind of prison for a group of alien dictators called The Watchers, who were forced through the portal by a group of human overthrowers. With the help of the other Survivors, Will must defeat the Watchers and find a way to return to his home reality. It’s a cool concept, and the game’s pretty highly anticipated. Throw Brad Pitt into the mix, and we might just have the very first video game movie worth viewing in a non-altered mental state.
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