The Darkness sequel in the works, film to follow

You eat their hearts to gain their courage ...

For a convention about comics, there sure are a lot of gaming announcements coming out of this year’s San Diego Comic-Con.

This little summary from Newsarama details the Top Cow Multimedia panel, which talks about the future for underworld-meets-Underworld series The Darkness.

While a sequel to the video game has been un-officially acknowledged for a long time now, it was confirmed the sequel is under production at the current time. VG247 recently confirmed however that Starbreeze, the original game’s developer, is not involved with the sequel, so there’s still room for as much rampant speculation as you like on the sequel’s direction. Given that last we saw of Jackie Estacado in the original game was his total consumption by the Darkness, I suppose he could really end up anywhere. As long as Mike Patton is still on board for voice acting the Darkness, well, I’ll be buying it.

On top of that, the panel also confirmed that a feature film was in the works. Again, no solid details, but an acknowledgement that Scott Stuber Productions (who brought us Role Models, The Kingdom and You, Me, and Dupree) is involved somehow. A curious choice, to say the least, but apparently we’ll hear more in the next 6-8 weeks.

Read over the whole panel summary.