Last year, Universal Pictures won the film rights for Dante’s Inferno, ahead of the official announcement of the game. Now, the other hit video game developed by Visceral Games, Dead Space, is getting its own big screen adaptation.
Variety reports that D. J. Caruso is slated to direct "Dead Space," a sci-fi horror film based on the video game starring engineer Isaac Clarke, who must fight an alien virus that reanimates human corpses aboard an immense mining ship, the USG Ishimura. Electronic Arts will produce the film with Temple Hill, the same production company behind the Gears of War big screen adaptation.
The producers, EA and Caruso have been listening to takes from prospective screenwriters, and once they set a writer and EA signs off on a creative direction, they will auction the property to studios. That will likely happen in early September.
Set 500 years in the future, in the cold blackness of deep space, Dead Space is a bold and bloody sci-fi survival horror game that follows the story of Isaac Clarke, a normal systems engineer, who is sent with a small repair team to restore communications aboard an immense mining ship, the USG Ishimura. It’s a living nightmare on board the Ishimura, as the crew has been unspeakably mutilated and infected by an ancient alien scourge. Clarke’s repair mission becomes one of survival as he fights not just to save himself, but to return the artifact to the planet at any cost.
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