Screen Gems Buys Rights To Devil May Cry

Sony Screen Gems has a few successful franchises in their pockets one being Underworld. An original concept that has spawned four films. The fourth currently in development and about to go into production. Their other big money maker is Resident Evil based on the popular Capcom video game series. That one is about to go into it's fifth installment. Now Collider reports that Screen Gems has bought the rights to another Capcom game Devil May Cry in the hopes to make a movie.

The games center around Dante, a man who slaughters demons to avenge his mother’s death. Kyle Ward has been hired to write the script and has previously wrote for the adaptation of Kane & Lynch. There seems to be a market out there for R-rated horror based action films and I'm all for that. Let's just hope that Paul W.S. Anderson isn't brought in to produce or direct as he's best suited for Resident Evil.