Dead Space being directed with an 'Eagle Eye' by D.J. Caruso

by Alexander Sliwinski { Jul 27th 2009 at 9:00AM }

Variety reports "vidgame" (seriously, Variety, stop that!) Dead Space is going to the big screen under the watchful gaze of Eagle Eye director D.J. Caruso. The producers and EA are currently talking to screenwriters and will then auction the movie to a studio. EA created a bidding war last year when it auctioned off God of War-esque Dante's Inferno -- even before it officially announced the game. The publisher also currently has Sims, Army of Two and Mass Effect movies in varying stages of development.

The Variety piece also mentions that EA is "working on the second and third installments" of the Dead Space franchise. Although that can be interpreted to mean sequels to the main game, it could also mean Extraction and the expected sequel. We're following up with Variety and EA for clarification and will update when we hear back.

Tags: dantes-inferno, dead-space, Dead-Space-Movie, dj-caruso, ea, electronic-arts, Movies

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

ryanpaulmcgowan @ Jul 27th 2009 9:07AM

A Sims movie?

Let me guess, I spend two hours watching a person do daily tasks while mumbling a bunch of jibberish? Thrilling.

david @ Jul 27th 2009 9:44AM

Seriously, WTF? How can "The Sims" be turned into a movie? That is one of the worst ideas I have ever heard of.

CrossTheAtlantic @ Jul 27th 2009 9:57AM

Hey Asteroids is going to be a movie so I guess no mountain is too big now, huh?

"Who cares if it has a plot, I JUST WANT VIDEOGAME MOVIES IN MY EYES!"
-America, as seen by studio execs.

smak @ Jul 27th 2009 2:04PM

Yeah... glad to see Gamesploitation is the new trend in Hollywood. God forbid tey actually come up with original IP on their own. Watch EA shamelessly release movie-tie-in games upon their debut as well, bringing the nonsense full-circle.

Sims The Movie The Game

Retarded.

Omega2k3 @ Jul 27th 2009 7:52PM

It'll be like Truman Show, except that instead of just being filmed, he's also being CONTROLLED BY A 14 YEAR OLD GIRL.

The Baron @ Jul 27th 2009 9:07AM

Sorry to probably provoke a spoiler thread, but did anybody actually 'get' the ending of DS?

Obie @ Jul 27th 2009 9:12AM

It could have been real or imagined, but I enjoyed it regardless.

WiredKnight @ Jul 27th 2009 9:21AM

Yes. They pulled quite a 6th Sense there at the end.

WiredKnight @ Jul 27th 2009 9:25AM

Wait, are you referring to the stuff about Nicole, or the stuff about the alien virus?

MLS @ Jul 27th 2009 9:30AM

Was I the only one who went "well yeah duh that's wh--- oh wait, that was supposed to be a surprise?"

The plot twists in Dead Space were awful. It was either stuff that wasn't surprising in the least bit, or really anticlimactic NPC deaths. Heck, even the payoff to that cult guy becoming a monster was a big disappointment.

"Hey when am I gonna fight that guy?"
"uh, you already did. He was that random monster you took out in like two shots."
"what? really?... that was it?"
"...guess so"

They already made a Dead Space movie. It was called Event Horizon. It had way more to it as well. More than nothing but monsters popping out of air ducts at least.

Anyway, it was a fun game.

Manly Mcbeefington (Mr. ESC) @ Jul 27th 2009 9:35AM

Well apparently Isaac was necrophile

Neuromancer @ Jul 27th 2009 9:57AM

Baron I think it was a standard American horror-film style "shock ending" that probably didn't really mean anything. I like the game but the ending was not cool.

The Baron @ Jul 27th 2009 12:26PM

Well, clearly he was made insane to some degree like everyone else on the ship. But if he wasn't hallucinating, how did he not notice the zombified corpse in his ship when he was flying away? Or was she real all along and died on the planet? Did he actually die at the end?

I came away from the otherwise excellent game not knowing what the writers wanted me to think. And not in a good way.

RavenLord @ Jul 27th 2009 12:46PM

What was not clear to you about the ending Baron? It was an excellent and unexpected twist which you don't get very often if at all in a game these days let alone one as amazingly done as Deadspace. I won't spoil it for those of you who have yet to play it. I'm very curious to see where they take the story in the sequels!

SpydaKat 17 @ Jul 27th 2009 12:50PM

I think that she was dead all along and he was hallucinating when she appeared throughout the game. How else would one explain how Nicole managed to appear on the ship after leaving her in the control room, plus the red hieroglyphics you saw every time she was around didn't support her being alive either.

KEENMACHlNE @ Jul 27th 2009 1:00PM

check out the first letter of every chapter

New Arrivals
Intensive Care
Course Correction
Obliteration Imminent
Lethal Devotion
Environmental Hazard

Into the Void
Search and Rescue

Dead on Arrival
End of Days
Alternate Solutions
Dead Space

notice anything?

Mr Clickerson @ Jul 27th 2009 1:58PM

OH GOD... Keen... Thank you- I never noticed that. I loved Dead Space already, but that shit... That's amazing. Ups my respect for EA a good bit.

Neuromancer @ Jul 27th 2009 2:59PM

I don't think she was really there on the space ship. I think she died a long time ago and the marker was giving Isaac the hallucinations, because the marker wanted to be back in the planet. So that bit right at the end I would guess is just his frayed nerves playing a trick on him, another hallucination. There are half a dozen horror flicks that end with the main character basically getting jumped at the end, it's just a cliche that needs to be put to rest.

The Baron @ Jul 27th 2009 3:06PM

Well, I don't watch a lot of horror - I don't really have the constitution (had to force myself through most of the game).

@RavenLord
My problem with the ending was basically just that when the credits rolled I couldn't for the life of me figure out what just happened.

dblakenz @ Jul 27th 2009 4:47PM

The game was for the most part pretty good, though the "plot twists" you could see coming a mile away.
But what pissed me off most was that they made Isaac a silent protagonist, and in doing so turned him into a b!tch. "Isaac do this", "Isaac do that". And he say's nothing in reply. I really hate games that do that, and the fact that you don't see his face till the end made it worse. Maybe it was to "put you" in the game I dunno, I just lost a connection with the character and in the end didn't really care what happened to him.
I really hope they flesh out the players character next time, and add more than a dozen different enemies.

A DS movie sounds good, better than a Sims Movie, WTF?!
I wonder who will play DSG?

cuteSAVAGE @ Jul 27th 2009 9:15AM

Both Eagle Eye and Disturbia were decent popcorn flicks, while Taking Lives and Two for the Money were vomit inducing. Sultan Sea was a great film though.

This could go either way. I think "Moon" will cover my need for desolate space thrillers for a while though, so if he can deliver good Carpenter-esque er-sci-fi horror, I'll bite.

cuteSAVAGE @ Jul 27th 2009 9:16AM

"Carpenter-esque sci-fi"

dark_inchworm (on Steam!) dark inchworm (on XBL!) @ Jul 27th 2009 9:32AM

Dead Space, the merely-ok popcorn flick starring Shia LeBeouf.

I'm not excited. :-/

Dance Mofo @ Jul 27th 2009 9:37AM

NO, no, no ,no, no, no, no, no, no!

Manly Mcbeefington (Mr. ESC) @ Jul 27th 2009 9:39AM

I don't know about that Dark inchworm if Shia LeBeouf dies and turns into a necromorph and gets killed again later in the movie I would give it my aproval.

Eagle's Eye was decent but I really can't remember the plot,I remember it was a visual effect extravaganza and Disturbia well that was the last best horror movie I've seen.For example nowadays producers and directors want to make us fear little girls.It wasn't scary when F.E.A.R did it and is less scary in a movie.

captainprotonx @ Jul 27th 2009 9:57AM

I wonder what Shia LeBeouf is doing riiiiiiiight now.

*harp in the distance*

BlackDove @ Jul 27th 2009 9:19AM

It was just a matter of time before someone took this Scientology advertising game and turned it into an advertising movie.

MystileArmor @ Jul 27th 2009 9:21AM

I have a sneaking suspicion Sam Raimi told you this in a blog.

Obie @ Jul 27th 2009 9:24AM

Wait, what?

Manly Mcbeefington (Mr. ESC) @ Jul 27th 2009 9:47AM

I think he is referring to the Unitologist or the Scientologist finally created a big ass space ship to fight Xenu without my knowledge.

If that’s the case I guess someone didn’t read the comics or the logs. The unitologist are portrayed like a cult made entirely of lunatics and potential psychopaths (who later turn out to be psychopaths) and that is far from scientology because scientologist are just there to take your money and brainwash idiots into submission *rimshot.

Neuromancer @ Jul 27th 2009 9:58AM

You may be a comic genius, Black Dove. That or an idiot.

But I'm going with comic genius.

captainprotonx @ Jul 27th 2009 9:19AM

I was wondering when Shia Labeouf would be placed in space.

Lunastra78 (PSN: lunastra78) @ Jul 27th 2009 9:20AM

Let's hope this movie is is shot down by the Pulse Rifle, smacked around by the Force Gun, beheaded by the Plasma Cutter, decapitated by the Line Cutter, cut into little pieces by the Ripper, torched by the Flamethrower and blasted into Oblivion by the Contact Beam before it ever gets near the silver screen.

8-bit.artist @ Jul 27th 2009 11:10AM

if you get beheaded by the Plasma Cutter, who would you then get decapitated by the Line Cutter?

The Baron @ Jul 27th 2009 12:28PM

It's the second head, obviously.

WREturns (www.theseagullweekly.com) @ Jul 27th 2009 9:25AM

Sadly, I'll take more Dead Space however I can get it.

Manly Mcbeefington (Mr. ESC) @ Jul 27th 2009 10:00AM

Aa...nah too easy.

Neuromancer @ Jul 27th 2009 10:02AM

Me too

I'm jonesin' bad, I hate to admit but I want this:

http://www.necaonline.com/product/detail/44787

musicman65000 @ Jul 27th 2009 9:26AM

Any reference to Dead Space would not be complete without the appearance by the freakiest person on Joystiq, DEAD SPACE GIRL!!!!!!!! WooooHooooo!

Neuromancer @ Jul 27th 2009 10:06AM

Don't remind them, please

CrossTheAtlantic @ Jul 27th 2009 9:35AM

I have little hope for this as a movie. One of the reasons Dead Space was so awesome was the gameplay. The story/setting had no problem highlighting the game's multiple (direct) inspirations in films such as Alien, The Thing, Solaris, and Nostromo, so when this game materializes it's going to be a movie based off of a game based off of several movies.At that point, there's little hope that it can escape it's derivative trappings and feel original. Even if the film is enjoyable, I doubt it can be either a critical or commercial success because of it's massive "seen it all before" aspect. The appeal of the game was not that we hadn't seen it all before, but that we hadn't played it before (especially not like this).

Of course, I could also ramble on about how the increasingly rapid attempts to turn games into films undermines the artistic credibility of videogames as a serious medium, but we probably shouldn't get into that.

Manly Mcbeefington (Mr. ESC) @ Jul 27th 2009 9:53AM

Honestly I can't see how this can go wrong.

All the reference material aproved by EA so far is very confusing since the order of the events never makes any sense and some of the material like the Animated Movie just screws with the timeline like a bad fan fic so I don't care if they alter the story,it never made sense.