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

by Alexander Sliwinski on Jul 27th 2009 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.

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Tags: dantes-inferno, dead-space, Dead-Space-Movie, dj-caruso, ea, electronic-arts, Microsoft, Movies, Nintendo, Wii, Xbox-360

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A Sims movie?

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

"Carpenter-esque sci-fi"

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

I'm not excited. :-/

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

I wonder what Shia LeBeouf is doing riiiiiiiight now.

*harp in the distance*

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

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

Wait, what?

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

But I'm going with comic genius.

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

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.

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

It's the second head, obviously.

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

Me too

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

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

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

Don't remind them, please

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.

Can't wait to see the movie's poster / dvd case :-D (looking your way, DSG)

"Variety reports "vidgame" (seriously, Variety, stop that!)..."

I'll make them stop that when Joystiq stops using the term "shmup".

DS:e Girl

Thing is, I already saw Event Horizon.

I'm sure they'll find a way to screw it up, even so.

It should be a musical, as every film based on a game should be.

Shia Leboooof as Isaac and Megan Fox as Nicole.

Co-starring Fat Megan Fox's bathwater.

D.J. Caruso....sounds like a CSI Miami/NYPD Blue mix-master...the horror...

Wow another game movie... I guess if Hollywood is going to grasp at anything, it might as well be games with interesting stories/plots, rather than reboots/remakes of movies barely 20 years old.

One lame example is Total Recall - apparently a movie made only 9 years before the 21st century needs to be "re-imagined for the 21st century", which probably means instead of Arnold blowing away everyone onscreen (awesome) it'll be Shia LeBouf hacking computer terminals (lame)

Tell me there is not really another Total Recall in the works...

Oh god there is, make them stop.

Heres what the plot will be:

*spoiler*

Man named Isaac will go to an underground laboratory in Washington DC as part of his job, finds woman in distress, finds dead doctors and human experiments, people turn into zombies, Isaac kills zombies with a high tech gun he finds, saves girl.

This is very good news indeed. Eagle Eye was a surprisingly good movie and the action was done very well. A Dead Space movie could be done very well with little effort. The fact that the story itself spans a relativly short period of time within the game would translate to very few story elements being stripped from the movie.

My only hope is that they cater this to an older crowd and don't hold back on the gore.

I wonder if they'll be able to pull off a movie with the lead character never speaking... it could be an interesting effect and would mirror the game nicely. More than likely we'll probably see a famous face portray the lead, and the first thought that comes to mind is Gerard Butler (300). He's got the rugged look, and he's beefed up, plus he's one of the "up and coming" leading men in hollywood, and he has a voice that can carry a movie and pull off the nessacary one liners in any hollywood action flick.

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

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