With the upcoming release of the FINAL FANTASY XV –EPISODE DUSCAE, Square Enix today released new screenshots featuring the expansive environment in the Duscae region, the camp system, along with missions that Noctis and his party will take on in the game.
FINAL FANTASY XV –EPISODE DUSCAE- is available exclusively with the purchase of FINAL FANTASY TYPE-0 HD while stocks last.
Merregnon Studios has announce that Final Symphony, a brand new album of FINAL FANTASY concert music, is now available to purchase as a digital download, courtesy of popular online music distributor, X5 Music Group.
Based on the sell-out Final Symphony concert tour, and performed by the world-famous London Symphony Orchestra in the presence of composer Nobuo Uematsu at Abbey Road Studios, Final Symphony the album features breathtaking new arrangements of some of Uematsu’s most beloved music from Final Fantasy VI, VII and X.
Boasting the talents of conductor Eckehard Stier and solo pianist Katharina Treutler, as well as sound engineering from the team behind scores for films such as Skyfall, Avatar and The Lord of the Rings, Final Symphony has been expertly Mastered for iTunes for unrivalled audio quality, making it the ultimate Final Fantasy music experience.
In the words of legendary composer Nobuo Uematsu, who was at the studio throughout the recording: “I never imagined twenty years ago that I would be able to work with the London Symphony Orchestra. It’s just wonderful that there are so many people who like Final Fantasy music; and to have it arranged by such incredibly talented people, Final Symphony is like a dream come true!”
Thomas Böcker, producer of Final Symphony added: “This album is a once in a lifetime production. The world’s greatest video game composer, orchestra and recording studio have all come together to create something truly remarkable out of the amazing arrangements. This is the music of Final Fantasy as you’ve never heard it before.”
Final Symphony is available now in Mastered for iTunes format and via other digital music retailers.
Out this week in the world of Nintendo is new add-on content for Hyrule Warriors.
| Hyrule Warriors: Boss Pack(Nintendo) | Wii U(Add-On Content for Hyrule Warriors) | Nintendo eShop from 26/02/2015 | €2.99 / £2.69 / CHF 4.20 | ||||||||||||
| Two new Challenge Modes (Boss Challenge and Ganon’s Fury) with five new alternatively-coloured costumes as rewards. Each mode contains three battle types across three difficulty levels, as well as one extra-difficult scenario. | |||||||||||||||
| SDK Paint (HULLBREACH STUDIOS) | Wii U(Download) | Nintendo eShop from 26/02/2015 | €4.49 / £3.99 / CHF 5.99 | ||||||||||||
| SDK Paint takes a unique approach to Wii U artwork creation, by stacking five layers onto the artwork canvas. Each layer can be utilised independently to create the next masterpiece. By combining the artistic modes (Normal Paint, Noisy Paint, Smudge, and Spraycan), the numerous filters (Blur, Negate, Lighten, Darken, etc.), the shaders (Pattern Fill, Flood Fill, Texture, etc.), and the tools (Gridlines, Stencils, Drag, Swap, etc.), possibilities of what the stylus can paint onto the canvas are endless. Oops, a mistake… Ten levels of Undo will help with that! The artwork needs fine precision? Just zoom the canvas! A large colour palette, with dragging support, lets artists easily choose exactly the colour desired, and a Dropper tool makes identifying previous colours a simple task. The features don’t just end with painting, either! How does the artwork look on a wall? Explore the retro 3D Galleries to see all 18 paintings framed on the walls. Is the artwork ready to show off? Jump into the Sharing area and prepare it for either 2D or anaglyph 3D (special glasses required) posting of screenshots to Miiverse. Show the world your inner artist. SDK Paint supports 3D viewing by use of anaglyph 3D glasses. While these are not required, they do enhance the experience. | |||||||||||||||
| Pac-Attack (BANDAI NAMCO Games) | Wii U(Virtual Console – Super Nintendo) | Nintendo eShop from 26/02/2015 | €7.99 / £5.49 / CHF 11.20 | ||||||||||||
| Pac-Man made his puzzle game debut in the pulse-pounding Pac-Attack. This quirky, fast-paced Super Nintendo puzzler tasks you with keeping the screen clear of falling blocks and ghosts, and Pac-Man well-fed! Every so often Pac-Man will appear, and will move across and down the screen; so you must get the ghosts lined up for him to munch. He will keep eating ghosts until he hits a dead end, so you need to plan quickly and carefully to clear all the ghosts. There are three game modes to choose from: 1 Player Normal Game, 2 Player VS Game and the challenging 1 Player Puzzle Game.This is the US version of the game. | |||||||||||||||
| Cybernator (Konami) | Wii U(Virtual Console – Super Nintendo) | Nintendo eShop from 26/02/2015 | €7.99 / £5.49 / CHF 11.20 | ||||||||||||
| In the near future, nations fight over dwindling resources. As Jake, soldier for the Pacific States, you must lead a deadly mission with your Cybernator Assault Suit through seven stages of run-and-gun action. As you progress, power up your weapons like the Vulcan cannon, punch and missiles. Each level has new objectives that may require your suit’s special abilities like roller-dash and flying modes. Cybernator is shoot ’em up action on an epic scale with set pieces that could belong in a blockbuster sci-fi movie!This is the US version of the game. | |||||||||||||||
| Hello Kitty & Sanrio Friends 3D Racing (Pqube) | Nintendo 3DS (Card/Download) | Nintendo eShop from 26/02/2015 | €39.99 / £29.99 / CHF 51.90 | ||||||||||||
| Hello Kitty & Sanrio Friends 3D Racing is a family-friendly kart racer that can be enjoyed by all ages. Race on land, through the air, and over water as you lead your favourite Sanrio characters to victory around colourful locations from the Hello Kitty universe. | |||||||||||||||
| Mes Comptines (Ringzero Games) | Nintendo 3DS (Download) | Nintendo eShop from 26/02/2015 | €4.99 / £4.49 / CHF 7.00 | ||||||||||||
| Feel the beat and sing aloud! Introduce your toddler and pre-schooler to the world of rhythm and music game! Mes Comptines combines 17 all-time favourite children songs in newly composed versions together with lively adorable 3D animations. Full-featured music videos keep children entertained while enjoying the simple yet addictive game play and alternately singing along these well-known kid tunes. Mes Comptines also helps children learn English vocabulary and enhance hand-and-ear coordination as they are tapping along to catchy rhythms. | |||||||||||||||
| Zombie Incident (Coderchild) | Nintendo 3DS (Download) | Nintendo eShop from 26/02/2015 | €1.99 / £1.99 / CHF 2.99 | ||||||||||||
| Hamartia, the great citadel, became the symbol of human sin. After centuries of excesses its penance was going to come. In the darkness of the night, chaos invaded everything. Beasts started to scream. Nothing was like before! No one sane would go to that place. Join our heroine to explore the citadel, find the eight golden stars, and run away from there! | |||||||||||||||
| Titan Attacks! (Curve Digital) | Nintendo 3DS (Download) | Nintendo eShop from 26/02/2015 | €9.99 / £7.99 / CHF 12.00 | ||||||||||||
| Single-handedly turn back the evil invading Titan army! Drive back the aliens across the Solar System, and finally defeat them on their home world in this modern remix of classic arcade shoot ’em ‘ups. Titan Attacks! has the same easy-to-learn but hard-to-master gameplay of classic arcade shooters, but is packed full of new features, new strategies, and stylish neo-retro visuals. BATTLE swarms of alien fighters, bombers and giant boss motherships over 5 unique worlds and 100 levels of frantic action! FIGHT the Titan Invasion across the Earth, the Moon, Mars, Saturn and finally Titan itself! EARN bounty money and upgrade your ship with new weapons and powers! DESTROY falling wrecks, dodge hurtling asteroids and capture escaping aliens – or blast them from the skies! WIN prizes in sharp-shooter challenge stages and compete with other players for a place on the online leaderboards! | |||||||||||||||
| Best of Arcade Games – Tetraminos (Bigben Interactive) | Nintendo 3DS (Download) | Nintendo eShop from 26/02/2015 | €9.99 / £8.99 / CHF 14.00 | ||||||||||||
| Rediscover a timeless puzzle classic with Tetraminos! Become a Tetraminos pro over 50 levels with increasing difficulty. Find the best place for your pieces and eliminate as many lines as possible in one go. Earn points to unlock bonuses that can be used at any time: bombs, piece storage… Discover the new Real Gravity game mode and build the highest Tetraminos tower possible before it collapses! | |||||||||||||||
| Craft Paper Kirby (Nintendo) | Nintendo 3DS (Download) | Theme Shop from 27/02/2015 | €1.99 / £1.79 / CHF 2.80 | ||||||||||||
| This theme features familiar Kirby items and sound effects on a fun craft paper design with an acoustic medley. | |||||||||||||||
| Kirby Sweet Gourmet Race (Nintendo) | Nintendo 3DS (Download) | Theme Shop from 27/02/2015 | €1.99 / £1.79 / CHF 2.80 | ||||||||||||
| It looks like Kirby will swallow the software logo in this theme! You can also find familiar sweets, music and sounds. | |||||||||||||||
| Smiling Kirby (Nintendo) | Nintendo 3DS (Download) | Theme Shop from 27/02/2015 | €1.99 / £1.79 / CHF 2.80 | ||||||||||||
KOEI TECMO Europe today announced that DEAD OR ALIVE 5 Last Round, the definitive DEAD OR ALIVE experience, has shipped to stores and is available in retailers across Europe for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and the Xbox 360. The PlayStation 3 version has been delayed one week and will launch digitally on 25 February 2015. DEAD OR ALIVE 5 Last Round represents the zenith of the DEAD OR ALIVE 5 series, taking all the best content from those games and adding all-new content only found in LAST ROUND to create the comprehensive DEAD OR ALIVE 5 game.
DEAD OR ALIVE 5 Last Round delivers the signature DOA fighting style with the most graphically impressive and feature-packed version of a DEAD OR ALIVE game ever seen. Combatants will present an unparalleled level of life-like detail, and smooth striking animations firmly place every fighter in the heat of the moment. The game’s dynamic interactive stages once again boast a range of visually striking locations from around the world, while offering even more destruction, deadly new danger zones and a higher level of strategic choices for players to utilize in the quest for victory.
With the largest roster of fighters in any DOA game to date, DEAD OR ALIVE Last Round includes new characters “The Regeneration of Brutality – Raidou”, a newly revived cybernetic version of the DEAD OR ALIVE boss character, and “Super Secret Fighter Chick – Honoka” the Japanese schoolgirl. Character customization options get even deeper, as DEAD OR ALIVE 5 Last Round offers over 400 open and unlockable costumes, and the brand new hairstyle and accessory options will give nearly endless possibilities to adorn the fighters for any occasion. Players can bring their run of rosters, costumes and accessories from DEAD OR ALIVE 5 Ultimate, as previously purchased DLC content will be transferable from last gen consoles to the PS4 and Xbox One (PS3 to PS4, Xbox 360 to Xbox One).
The adventures of Bilbo Baggins come to an epic conclusion in “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies”, a production of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM), arriving onto Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray and DVD on 20th April and available to download from 6th April, from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. From the filmmaker Peter Jackson comes “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies”, the third in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien.
In “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies”, Ian McKellen returns as Gandalf the Grey, with Martin Freeman in the central role of Bilbo Baggins, and Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield. The international ensemble cast is led byEvangeline Lilly, Luke Evans, Lee Pace, Benedict Cumberbatch, Billy Connolly, James Nesbitt, Ken Stott, Aidan Turner, Dean O’Gorman, Graham McTavish, Stephen Fry and Ryan Gage. The film also stars Cate Blanchett, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, Orlando Bloom, Mikael Persbrandt, Sylvester McCoy, Peter Hambleton, John Callen, Mark Hadlow, Jed Brophy, William Kircher, Stephen Hunter, Adam Brown, John Bell, Manu Bennett and John Tui.
The screenplay for “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” is by Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson &Guillermo del Toro, based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien. Jackson also produced the film, together with Carolynne Cunningham,Zane Weiner and Fran Walsh. The executive producers are Alan Horn, Toby Emmerich, Ken Kamins and Carolyn Blackwood, with Philippa Boyens and Eileen Moran serving as co-producers.
The Hobbit Trilogy tells a continuous story set in Middle-earth 60 years before The Lord of the Rings, which Peter Jackson and his team brought to the big screen in the blockbuster trilogy that culminated with the The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
“The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” will be available on Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray and DVD The Blu-ray 3D features the theatrical version of the film in 3D hi-definition, hi-definition and standard definition; the Blu-ray features the theatrical version of the film in hi-definition on Blu-ray; and the DVD features the theatrical version in standard definition. The Blu-ray 3D and Blu-ray versions include a digital version of the movie with UltraViolet. Fans can also own The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies via purchase from digital retailers from 6th April. Additionally, for the first time The Hobbit Motion Picture Trilogy Box Set will be available featuring The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies and will be available on 3D, Blu-ray and DVD.
3D AND BLU-RAY ELEMENTS
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies 3D and Blu-ray contain the following special features:
• Recruiting the Five Armies
• Completing Middle-earth
• The Last Goodbye Music Video
• New Zealand: Home of Middle-earth, Part 3
BASICS
Standard Street Date: 20th April, 2015
Running Time: 144 minutes
Rating: 12A
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and United Kingdom Interactive Entertainment (Ukie) have teamed up to help guide the next generation of games industry employees through the first steps to a successful career in one of the most cutting edge industries on the planet.
As part of the GamesIndustry Fair at next month’s EGX Rezzed games event, the BAFTA & Ukie Careers Bar will feature development-focused talks like programming, art and design from BAFTA Breakthrough Brit honourees Sophia George, William Pugh and BAFTA-nominee Daniel Gray. Ukie will also be hosting talks relating to the publishing side of the games industry, covering community management, marketing, PR and more from Ukie Video Games Ambassadors at Sony, Nintendo, GameSpot and SEGA.
BAFTA Crew Games members – professionals in the early stages of their career – and Ukie’s army of Video Games Ambassadors will be on hand throughout the fair to chat about their games industry experiences and career histories, as well as advise on study choices and available career paths. They’ll also be providing one-to-one job application advice, so visitors are encouraged to bring their CVs and work portfolios.
In addition, the advisors will discuss how the wealth of free services BAFTA and Ukie provide – including BAFTA’s skills development programmes & Ukie’s Student Membership and Digital Schoolhouse initiatives – can help throughout both student and professional careers.
CEO of games industry trade body Ukie and BAFTA Games Committee member Dr Jo Twist commented, “Having the careers bar at EGX Rezzed is an incredibly effective way of inspiring the next generation of games talent. Giving people the chance to hear straight from our industry experts is a great way for them to find out about the wide range of careers available in the games industry. We are delighted to be partnering with BAFTA and EGX Rezzed to help make this happen”.
Tim Hunter, Director of Learning and Events at BAFTA, said, “The careers bar is a fantastic opportunity to speak to people with a variety of experiences of working in games, who have a wealth of advice to share about getting in and getting on in this exciting industry. BAFTA also provides a range of resources to help anyone, regardless of background, forge ahead and develop their career. We are delighted to be able to share these on a platform with Ukie and EGX Rezzed”.
Students are entitled to a 20% discount to EGX Rezzed, which includes access to the BAFTA & Ukie Careers Bar and GamesIndustry Fair, plus the many dozens of playable PC and console games and developer speaking sessions.
Watch the Homeworld Remastered Collection 4K Cinematic trailer, features two in game Homeworld cinematics from the Homeworld Remastered Collection, with the Mothership awaiting your command starting 25th February.
Save 15% by pre-ordering now on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/244160
Wargaming has announced its free-to-play multiplayer game World of Tanks is coming to Xbox One in 2015. Now the action of World of Tanks: Xbox 360 Edition will expand onto the battle arena of Xbox One as Wargaming’s iconic tanks deploy a new generation of tank warfare. Just like the Xbox 360 Edition, this title will be available as a free download for all Xbox Live Gold members*.
“A year ago, World of Tanks arrived on Xbox 360 and has flourished, adding millions of players to the global ranks of Wargaming tankers,” stated T.J. Wagner, Executive Producer of Wargaming Chicago-Baltimore. “Wargaming’s invasion into the console space is fully underway. Our forces are aligned and we are proud to advance to the next level on the Xbox One platform.”
Cross platform play between Xbox One and Xbox 360 will be available ensuring that tankers on both consoles stay in the fight. Both versions of the game will share a common battle server, identical content updates and the same active community of players. With the game available on Xbox One and Xbox 360, the opportunity for battle grows, as the number of combatants swells across the two, server linked consoles.
Additionally, for those upgrading from the Xbox 360 to the Xbox One, all existing World of Tanks accounts and in-game progress will automatically transfer to the new platform. Tankers can continue to play with confidence, knowing that no matter the Xbox platform, the battle will rage on
Adobe Photoshop, the imaging software that redefine creativity in the digital age, turns 25 today. Photoshop touches virtually all the inspirational imagery that surrounds us: the high-impact logo on your morning cup of coffee; the new app you download on your iPhone; the sleek design of your running shoes; the Hollywood blockbuster that you’ll see tonight. Photoshop continues to blaze a trail, with amazing new features added with every release and new mobile apps that extend the power of Photoshop to iPhone, iPad and Android devices.
“For 25 years, Photoshop has inspired artists and designers to craft images of stunning beauty and reality-bending creativity,” said Shantanu Narayen, Adobe president and chief executive officer. “From desktop publishing, to fashion photography, movie production, web site design, mobile app creation and now 3D Printing, Photoshop continues to redefine industries and creative possibilities. And today that Photoshop magic is available to millions of new users, thanks to Adobe Creative Cloud.”
Photoshop is one of the most recognised software brands in the world, with tens of millions of users, and is the go-to application for digital image manipulation across all media: from print, to film, to the web. Photoshop features — such as Layers, The Healing Brush, Content Aware Fill and Camera Raw — have empowered creatives to produce their best work. Photoshop technology is also at the heart of Adobe Lightroom, essential software for both professional and amateur photographers. And to meet the needs of today’s visual artists, Photoshop and Lightroom mobile apps enable creatives to work on image files seamlessly across desktop computers, tablets and smartphones.
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Photoshop’s success helped Adobe deliver the creative industry’s most comprehensive set of tools. No other company serves the creative industry with such a wide range of products and services. In addition to Photoshop, applications like Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Dreamweaver and others have pushed creativity forward, no matter what the media. And today Adobe Creative Cloud services, such as Behance and Creative Talent Search, are helping a new generation of creatives find a global audience and market for their work.
The secret of Photoshop’s massive success has been its constantly evolving capabilities and an incredible pipeline of deep image science. This pipeline of innovation is now getting to customers faster than ever before, with Photoshop and Lightroom desktop and mobile apps constantly updated, as part of Adobe Creative Cloud.
To celebrate this Photoshop milestone, Adobe is showcasing 25 of the most creative visual artists under 25 who use Photoshop. To be considered, artists upload their projects to Behance and use the tag “Ps25Under25.” In the coming months, those selected will take over the Photoshop Instagram handle (@Photoshop) for two weeks and present their work for the world to see. Fredy Santiago, a 24-year old Mexican-American artist and illustrator, based in Ventura, California will be the first to display his incredible work, beginning today.
The company is also launching an advertising campaign, “Dream On”, on The Academy Awards — as a tribute to 25 years of amazing art created in Photoshop. The TV advertisement includes incredible work from Photoshop artists and iconic images from major motion pictures that used Photoshop in the making, including Avatar, Gone Girl, How to Train Your Dragon 2 and Shrek.
Screenshots
New in preview is a highly requested feature by our community from the Xbox feedback site. While playing a game, you can now take screenshots on your Xbox One console by simply double-tapping the Xbox button on your controller to capture a screenshot and pressing Y to save the screenshot. You can also say “Xbox Take a Screenshot” to take and save a screenshot.
The Upload app is being updated so that you can manage your screenshots in addition to your game clips. You can use a screenshot as your background, by viewing the screenshot in full-screen mode from the Upload app, then, press the Menu button and select Set as background. In coming preview builds, you will be able to use Upload to share screenshots to your activity feed, attach to messages, add screenshots to your showcase, and eventually share to Twitter. Also, your screenshots will be visible in your profile alongside your game clips. In the initial preview build, the sharing functions are not yet enabled, but you can start capturing screenshots and using them for your backgrounds.
Suggested friends
With the suggested friends feature, the Friends area in home and your friends list will help you find and add friends. Suggested friends will include people you might know, so you add more friends to game with, and top community broadcasters and clip creators, so you can get more great content in your activity feed. We’re also adding a new suggested friends page to the Friends area.
Sharing your name
This month in preview, we’re rolling out two new ways to share your real name; with all of your friends or to everyone in the Xbox Live community. You can also continue to share your real name with select friends, or with no one, if that’s what you prefer. Gamertags are still the primary method of identifying yourself on Xbox Live, but sharing your real name helps people recognize you who might not know you by your gamertag. The new name sharing options can be found under Friends > My profile > Name sharing settings.
Tile transparency
We continue to listen to your feedback and are adding a setting to enable you to vary the level of transparency for your background images, go to Settings > My Xbox > Tile transparency.
Privacy and online safety settings
We added a new setting for sharing voice search data to create an option for you to allow collection and analysis of voice data when using Xbox – Bing to search. You can go to Settings > Privacy and online safety > Share voice search data to change the setting.
Report spam
The Messages app has an added option to allow you to notify Xbox when you receive spam. You can now select a specific message, press the A button and then select Report > Spam to report a specific message as spam.
OneGuide for Australia
Support for OneGuide will continue in preview in Australia for free-to-air TV listings.
Xbox One Digital TV Tuner in Australia
Xbox One owners in Australia with an Xbox Digital TV Tuner can now use it with the preview builds of this month’s release.
Slightly Mad Studios and BANDAI NAMCO Games Europe S.A.S has today confirmed that Project CARS has slight shifted the released date to the 2nd April, which will be available for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. The slight shift of the date is due to final adjustments in the game, that are required to provide to the fans with the best gaming experience they could have.
“Moving a release date was not an easy decision to make, as we know our fans are eager to get their hands-on on Project CARS”, said Ian Bell, Head of Studio at Slightly Mad Studios. “But we know that these extra days will allow us to provide the best game experience that our fans deserve. We assure you the wait will be worth it when the game does arrive early April”.
Project CARS aims to deliver the most authentic, beautiful, intense, and technically-advanced racing game on the planet. Crowd-funded by a passionate community that has been involved in the development process from day-one to create their ultimate racing experience, Project CARS includes the largest track roster of any recent racing game, a huge variety of motorsports to play, a freeform and authentic career mode, world-class graphics and handling, dynamic time of day & weather, and a suite of community features and connectivity that leave the competition behind in the dust.
Today Ubisoft has announced that patch 5 for Assassin’s Creed Unity has start to roll out for first for Xbox One (18th February) and for PlayStation 4 and PC tomorrow (19th February).
Stability & performance
Save game & Progression
Online matchmaking, connectivity & replication
Gameplay (navigation, fight, stealth)
Menus and HUD
World & 3D
Director/producer Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer have cast some of the world’s most talented and interesting rising international stars to join Tom Hanks in Inferno, the new film in Columbia Pictures’ Robert Langdon series, which has taken in more than $1.2 billion worldwide to date.
The Imagine Entertainment production, which has a screenplay by David Koepp based on the book by Dan Brown, is slated for release on 14th October, 2016 and will begin principal photography at the end of April. The project’s executive producers are Dan Brown, Anna Culp, Bill Connor, and David Householter.
Inferno continues the Harvard symbologist’s adventures on screen: when Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Sienna Brooks, a doctor he hopes will help him recover his memories and prevent a madman from releasing a global plague connected to Dante’s “Inferno.”
Felicity Jones, an Oscar nominee this year for her performance in The Theory of Everything, will star opposite Hanks as Dr. Sienna Brooks. Irrfan Khan, one of India’s biggest stars, best known for his roles in Slumdog Millionaire, Life of Pi, and The Lunchbox, takes the role of Harry Sims, also known as The Provost. French actor Omar Sy, best known for his work in the French mega-hit The Intouchables, as well as X-Men: Days of Future Past, the upcoming Jurassic World, and John Wells’ upcoming untitled project, will play Christoph Bruder. Sidse Babett Knudsen, star of the Danish television series “Borgen,” will portray Dr. Elizabeth Sinskey, the head of the World Health Organization. The filmmakers are also in talks with several other internationally recognized actors for major roles.
Commenting on the announcement, Howard said, “For this film, I wanted Tom Hanks to be surrounded by an international cast of actors whose energy will underscore Robert Langdon’s life-or-death peril, the high-stakes action he takes, and the global threat that he’s trying to prevent. Felicity, Irrfan, Omar, and Sidse have all broken through with recognition here in America as well as their home countries – they are phenomenal talents and we can’t wait to get started.”
“We’re thrilled to be making a third Robert Langdon film with Ron, Tom and Brian,” said Doug Belgrad, president, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group. “Inferno will deliver all of the excitement, intrigue and international adventure that audiences expect from a film based on Dan Brown’s huge selling Langdon book series. We can’t wait to see this character back on the big screen.”
Michael De Luca and Andrea Giannetti will oversee the project for Columbia Pictures.
