There’s little doubt that with all the buzz for Avatar, the rest of Hollywood is looking for anything and everything else set in deep space with an eye to making a movie version out of it (assuming James Cameron’s movie proves to be as big as expected, of course). The latest to take a step forward is the EA videogame Dead Space, which Variety is reporting that Disturbia and Eagle Eye director D.J. Caruso is currently developing for the big screen. Apparently he and EA are at the stage of listening to pitches from prospective screenwriters on how to adapt the game for the big screen.
Dead Space is set in the 26th Century, where an engineer responds to a distress call from a mining ship in deep space, only to find the vessel infested with creatures called Necromorphs, which are human corpses, reanimated by an alien virus.
The next step is that once Caruso and EA are happy with the way the movie will work, they plan to auction the property off to the studios. As space and zombies are big in Hollywood at the moment, it would seem Dead Space has a decent chance of actually getting to cinemas.
EA is being fairly agressive about getting its videogames onto the big screen at the moment, with other titles such as Dante’s Inferno, Army Of Two, The Sims and Mass Effect also in the works at various studios.
As work on Dead Space is still at such an early stage, there’s no news yet when it might actually making it onto screens.