Last week Variety reported that Electronic Arts was shopping around an upcoming and unannounced game to movie studios. The game itself, a modern retelling of the epic poem Dante's Inferno, still hasn't been announced but today Variety reports that Universal Studios has won the battle to make the movie version of the game.

The movie itself will be produced by Strike Entertainment (best known for their remake of Dawn of the Dead that launched Zach Snyder's movie directing career) but no writer or director has been announced. Indeed, EA still has yet to announce the game itself which Variety states is scheduled for release late in 2009.