Washington DC, April 14 -- PlayStation's 'Bloodborne' video game is being developed into an R-rated animated feature for Sony Pictures that the studio says will embrace the carnage that made the game so popular, reported Variety.

Sanford Panitch, president of Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, promised during the studio's CinemaCon presentation that the long-rumoured film will be "very true" to the gory spirit of "Bloodborne," which follows a traveller who journeys into a gothic city full of nightmarish creatures.

'Bloodborne' was developed by FromSoftware and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment, which shares a parent company with Sony Pictures and PlayStation. The film is co-produced by PlayStation Productions, L...