Check out this trailer for the new Dante’s Inferno animated movie. The film is based on the third-person action-adventure video game slated to be published by Electronic Arts and in development at Visceral Games. The game is loosely based on Inferno, the first book of Dante Alighieri’s epic poem, The Divine Comedy. The story of the game is written by Will Rokos, who wrote the film Monster’s Ball.

The script was written by Brandon Auman, Joe Goyette who produced EA’s Dead Space: Downfall is producing the film, and it is being Directed by Victor Cook, who worked on Hellboy Animated: Blood & Iron, The Spectacular Spider-Man and Iron Man: Armored Adventures.

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The film will mirror the game’s plot and follow Dante’s journey through the nine circles of Hell — limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery, in search of his true love, Beatrice.

This Animated Epic will include six vignettes created by nine renowned animation studios, including the studios behind such films as Ghost in the Shell, Blood the Last Vampire, Tales of the Black Freighter and Samurai Champloo. The production of the film is very similar to Batman: Gotham Knights and Halo: Legends.

Both the game and the film will be released in February, 2010.