Brad Pitt Pulls a Uwe Boll, Enters the Dark Void

Brad Pitt producing a movie based on a videogame? Brad Pitt actually starring in said videogame turned movie? Hey, stranger things have happened. Like, say, a guy name Uwe Boll buying up and making movies based on videogames, and people actually allowing him to do so. It could be worst, I suppose, and Pitt would certainly look pretty good as a Rocketeer-ish badass fighting aliens.

The game in question is “Dark Void”, and Pitt’s Plan B has partnered up with Reliance BIG Entertainment to turn the property into a movie, with Pitt possibly stepping into the main character’s rocket pack as star. The third-person game centers on a a cargo pilot named Will who, after crashing in the infamous 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.

Never heard of “Dark Void”? Me, neither. Check out a trailer for it below.

Not bad, right? Again, Pitt’s production company is definitely producing, and the movie is being developed as a starring vehicle for him, but there’s no certainty he will eventually star when the project is ready to go.

In any case, sure looks like “The Rocketeer”, right? And I’m a big fan of that movie, too.