Brad Pitt could fight (video game) aliens

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Pitt’s Plan B production company has teamed up with Indian film giant Reliance BIG Entertainment to secure the rights to the upcoming sc-fi video game ‘Dark Void.’ The Capcom release, which will be available on multiple platforms in January, tells the story of a pilot named Will who crashes into the Bermuda Triangle and finds himself shanghaied into an alternate universe where he and a band of ragtag survivors face off against a terrible alien enemy.

The two firms have acquired rights to the Capcom third-person shooter and will develop as a feature. The companies say that the project would be a “potential starring vehicle” for Pitt. No writers have been hired as yet.

“Void” centers on a a cargo pilot named Will (Pitt’s presumed character) who, after crashing in the Bermuda Triangle, ends up in a parallel universe where a band of humans must fight an alien threat they had long been thought extinct. Will and the other humans are outmanned but have a number of weapons and powers to help them beat back the alien incursion.

The game will be released for Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in January. CAA repped Plan B and Reliance in the deal; UTA-repped Capcom.

If it becomes a full-fledged film, the project could potentially be made via one of a number of Reliance’s financing and output pacts.void 150×150 Brad Pitt could fight (video game) aliens

The project is the first to come out of a development partnership between Plan B and Reliance that was announced at the Festival de Cannes in 2008. The Indian giant has deals with a number of other Hollywood production banners, including Julia Roberts’ Red Om and George Clooney’s Smokehouse.

Video games have had a mixed record on the big screen, with title likes “Max Payne” mutating into critical and commercial flops. But principals here pointed to advantages a “Dark Void” movie would have that its predecessors have not.

“As a game, ‘Dark Void’ was developed with a wide-screen mentality – a world full of adventure presented in cinematic scope and scale,” Capcom senior vp licensing Germaine Gioia said.