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Airdorf Games’ video game FAITH: The Unholy Trinity is making the leap to the screen, Bloody Disgusting has exclusively learned, with a movie adaptation officially in the works.
Brandon Salisbury, the writer, and director of the highly anticipated documentary George A. Romero’s Resident Evil, has inked a deal with Airdorf Games, the creator of FAITH: The Unholy Trinity video game, to bring the horror franchise to the big screen in what promises to be the first installment of a horror trilogy.
Salisbury is joined by Executive Producer Steve Barton, who executive produced the box office hit Terrifier 2. Additionally, George Demick (Knightriders, Asylum of Terror) and Airdorf Games, the original creators of FAITH, will also serve as Executive Producers, with Airdorf taking on an advisory role to ensure the film stays true to the game’s vision.
The screenplay will be handled by Emmy Award-winning screenwriter John Esposito (Graveyard Shift, The Walking Dead webisodes, Shudder’s Creepshow) based on a treatment written by Brandon Salisbury and Steve Barton. Joining them will also be filmmaker and cinematographer Tom Robenolt (Whistle to the Maples, George A. Romero’s Resident Evil) and J.J. Trulock, creator of the popular YouTube channel Residence of Evil, devoted to Resident Evil and Survival Horror gaming. Trulock serves as a Producer for the film.
Carson Demick (All of It Ends, George A. Romero’s Resident Evil) and Chris MacGibbon (Blood Was Everywhere) are rounding out the producing team.
Set in the 1980s, the FAITH games follow John, a young priest struggling from the fallout of a failed exorcism. Themes of faith, guilt, and redemption permeate the narrative, which centers around demonic possession and religious horror. Players guide John as he confronts a Satanic cult hellbent on releasing the ultimate evil. The games draw inspiration from the infamous “Satanic Panic” of the 1980s, an era marked by widespread paranoia about Satanic influence in media, music, and tabletop games.
Salisbury says about the project, “The game is an example of horror through minimalistic locations and characters… a disturbing journey that the player has to endure to its end. For the film, we want to preserve that same feeling you get when you play FAITH for the first time. We are treating the material with the respect that fans expect and deserve.”
Barton adds, “As a lifelong gamer and horror fan, the challenge and opportunity to take this minimalist horror milestone and flesh it out while preserving its terrifying roots is one I could not pass up.”
FAITH will be the third collaboration with Salisbury, Robenolt, and George and Carson Demick. The group previously campaigned for a sequel to George Romero’s Knightriders, producing a concept film that garnered support from many of the original cast and crew.
Meanwhile, George A. Romero’s Resident Evil will be available on Digital and On Demand starting January 7, 2025.
FAITH is a survival horror video game created by Airdorf Games for Windows.
The game unfolds across three chapters, with the first two independently released by Airdorf Games in October 2017 and February 2019, respectively. The third chapter, however, debuted in October 2022 under the banner of New Blood Interactive as part of Faith: The Unholy Trinity (stylized as FAI†H: The Unholy Trinity). This compilation combines all three chapters, enhanced with additional features to enrich the experience.
