>He also confirmed that the series will include Dante, Vergil and Lady; without revealing much about the plot. However, for this adaptation Shankar has been working directly with Hiroyuki Kobayashi. The latter worked on several Capcom games including the original DMC and Resident Evil games.
Shitty prequel, likely non-canon, set around dmc3 confirmed. Why even bother? It's gonna be shitty either way but they could have at least continued the story past dmc5, even if its just Dante and Vergil's escapades through hell, consider dmc6 is years and year away.