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'Dead Space' Video Game Being Adapted for Big Screen Terror
Sunday, July 26, 2009


By: MrDisgusting
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Good news, bad news, which you want first? The good news is that the Electronic Arts hit video game Dead Space (an experience that reminds me of Paul W.S. Anderson's Event Horizon) is on course to become a sci-fi/horror film. The bad news is that Eagle Eye and Disturbia helmer D.J. Caruso is attached to direct. Eagle Eye is nearly unwatchable (27% on Rotten Tomatoes), so handing him such a beloved new video game franchise is a little scary. More on the announcement can be found inside.

EA will produce the film with Temple Hill partners Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey. 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.

The last EA property to follow that course was "Dante's Inferno" -- a journey through the depths of hell; Universal made the deal after a four-studio bidding battle.

"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.

"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.

Temple Hill's Bowen and Godfrey are producing "Gears of War," a live-action adaptation of the Microsoft and Epic Games' vidgame for New Line, with Len Wiseman attached to direct and Chris Morgan scripting.

Caruso is also developing "Defender," the Gary Witta-scripted DreamWorks drama that Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci are producing.



Source: Variety

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BloodFlow
6:15pm, July 26, 2009

u serious? Eagle Eye was pretty damn decent. There's nothing wrong with the way he directs


Sin Daddy
6:18pm, July 26, 2009

And Ridley Scott or James Cameron never sprung to mind when they decided this?


sarahandkevin
6:36pm, July 26, 2009

awesome


NVK
6:38pm, July 26, 2009

Disturbia and Eagle Eye were not that bad at all. And I doubt Ridley Scott or James Cameron would agree to direct a videogame movie.


deadlover
6:44pm, July 26, 2009

I thought Eagle Eye didn't hold up to more than one viewing, but I went in to Disturbia expecting nothing and actually really liked it. And since this is more of a suspense oriented property, I don't see why this is bad news really. I haven't seen Taking Lives . . .


Se7enwolf
6:56pm, July 26, 2009

MrDisgusting has terrible taste in movies


KatharineAddict
7:06pm, July 26, 2009

$100 million people worthy disagree about Eagle Eye. I enjoyed it, and he proved with Disturbia he can successfully direct a horror/suspense flick.


amikec281
7:13pm, July 26, 2009

Eagle Eye unwatchable? That movie was awesome. That car chase scene after he busted out of the building was incredible. I'll definitely check out Dead Space if it happens.


bassturd
7:26pm, July 26, 2009

never saw Eagle Eye but as for this videogame (a game I very much loved) being adapted to movie form makes me sad. Not to mention the main character (Issac) really has no personality at all...for a videogame, that works. Because you are suppose to be that character. So wonder how they will make him in the movie if he is in it.


CJ_01976
7:27pm, July 26, 2009

I thought "Eagle Eye" fell flat in the second half. It was cool up till then.


shazan
7:40pm, July 26, 2009

Didnt they already do this but animated? I,m sure I watched it.


djdeathwish
9:08pm, July 26, 2009

Since this director can only direct movies that rip off Hitchcock, I wonder which film will be stolen to make this script? Disturbia - Rear Window Eagle Eye - North by Northwest


Wlad
9:14pm, July 26, 2009

I loved Dead Space. And I have no problem with Caruso. I thought Eagle Eye was a decent actioner. But news like this always give me mixed feelings. A movie like this will come across as just another 'Alien' clone on the big screen.


Demented_Reality
9:15pm, July 26, 2009

LOL to djdeathwish! I agree!


MrDisgusting
9:44pm, July 26, 2009

If you liked Eagle Eye, that's sad. It's a complete rip-off of Matrix, I Robot and various other films. It has a 27% on Rotten Tomatoes, confirming I'm in the majority <http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/eagle_eye/> Sure it looked decent, and had some cool action, but overall it was garbage. If you want to say I have bad taste, that's fine, but in my eyes I proved you're the one with bad taste. Zinger.


ttop33
9:53pm, July 26, 2009

Well MrDisgusting you know what else has a 27%. Your beloved crappy Friday the 13th remake. Oh wait no its a 26% on rotten tomatoes. But something tells me you still support it and think it's great. And you speak about judging track records. But then in other comments you say Nightmare on Elm st. remake is looking good. But oddly enough the hitcher, amityville, friday the 13th, and Texas Chainsaw massacre remakes were all done by Platinum Dunes and they all suck and were poorly received. Seems like perhaps you pick and choose which movies look promising depending on who ever is slipping a dollar in your back pocket. So now track records count huh?


Sethal
10:11pm, July 26, 2009

I am fucking pumped, that game owned, to bad the movie is gonna take forever to come out.


xXFacelessXx
10:52pm, July 26, 2009

Aside from the bitching of everybody this could still be promising. I mean imagining that trailer being the actual REAL trailer for the movie could be quite interesting. Besides that it's one of those movies you can put hope into but you never really know how good it's gonna be until you actually see it. The director shouldn't effect the outcome too much and I for one am pretty excited to see this on the big screen.


Vorph
12:11am, July 27, 2009

Disturbia wasn't bad, just utterly unoriginal. Eagle Eye was shit, but I blame that more on the absurd writing than on the direction. Two things could salvage Dead Space as a movie easily: first, bring Warren Ellis in again to do the screenplay, and second, keep Shia LeBeouf the hell away from it. It's bad enough I'm already dreading Y: the Last Man because Caruso wants to get him to star in that too.


flesheater123
12:21am, July 27, 2009

Disturbia was really good, eagle eye sucked ASS... And if he follows the game, we will be good, and theres no way he can make this PG-13 no way, it just can't be done, but it prob will and I will be so pissssssseeeeeddd.. by the way the game is fuckin EPIC. scared me so much. And the ending was the most fucked up shit I ever seen EVER.


syn79
12:56am, July 27, 2009

what it comes down to is DJ Caruso is pretty capable...did anyone see the salton sea? epic flick, Disturbia is good and Eagle Eye is nowhere near as bad as people make it out to be, the story isn't great but its far from being poorly made. Also Mr.Disgusting your acting like a hurt fanboy throwing up the rotten tomatoes score...you, a die hard horror fan should know that RT is bullshit.


CJ_01976
1:32am, July 27, 2009

What is even more bullshit about RT is that they have their own TV show. What a joke.


syko2k2
1:48am, July 27, 2009

Didn't James Wan edit a trailer for the Dead Space game? They should have tried to get him to direct it. As far as Eagle Eye goes, I expected more. It was a fun rental, but nothing worth watching more then once.


wilbur11995
2:30am, July 27, 2009

the idea for a film for "dead space is good but if it is the director of "disturbia/eagle" eye then its going to be more of a action film instead of horror.


wilbur11995
2:30am, July 27, 2009

the idea for a film for "dead space is good but if it is the director of "disturbia/eagle" eye then its going to be more of a action film instead of horror.


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