The Electronic Arts hit vidgame Dead Space is on course to become a sci-fi/horror film, with “Eagle Eye” helmer D.J. Caruso attached to direct according to Variety.
“Dead Space” is set in the 26th century in deep space, where an engineer who responds to a distress signal from a mining ship finds the vessel infested with monstrous creatures called Necromorphs. The creatures are human corpses, reanimated by an alien virus.
EA launched the game in 2008 and is working on the second and third installments.
I’ve just started playing the game and it is a little spooky.
“Dead Space” becomes the fifth EA title to percolate as a feature property. Aside from the “Dante’s Inferno” film that will be produced by Strike Entertainment partners Eric Newman and Marc Abraham, EA is in business with Universal on “Army of Two,” with Scott Z. Burns (“The Bourne Ultimatum”) scripting and Scott Stuber producing. EA’s “The Sims” is being developed by producer John Davis and “Mass Effect” by “Spider-Man” producer Avi Arad.
A Dead Space film sounds good, but it will have to pull out all the stops to distance itself from films like Event Horizon, and possibly Pandorum (judging by the trailers for that one). Would you want to see a Dead Space film? Who should star in it?
