Dead Space Film Confirmed, Director Announced

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.