D.J. Caruso to helm Dead Space adaptation

Posted on July 28, 2009
Filed Under Actors, Adaptation, Directors

I have this thing for computer games. I strongly believe they are therapeutic. Nothing can make me unstress me like 45 minutes of gaming. Now, being a family man I don’t usually get 45 minutes but at least I can watch the intro or something… Of course this is my way of sliding into today’s post, while we are on the subject. Smooth huh?

Variety reports that director D.J. Caruso is set to adapt Electronic Arts game “Dead Space.” EA launched the game in 2008 and is currently working on the second and third installments. So what is “Dead Space”? It’s a game 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. Yummy!

Electronic Arts 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.

I just watched “Disturbia” (for the fourth time?) two nights ago and was again struck by the intensity, the clever suspense that forces you to keep watching (and biting your fingernails). It’s not a fantastic movie but it does certainly deliver on the thriller/suspense part. Good job Caruso! Bring some of that to “Dead Space” will you! Yeah, OK, Shia is good in it too…

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