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Dead Space movie announced, trilogy revealed?

DJ Caruso on board to direct live-action version of Electronic Arts' survival horror/sci-fi crossover; Variety reports "second and third" games in the works.

Electronic Arts' Visceral Games made headlines last week for both losing two top executives and showing off its wares at Comic-con 2009 in San Diego. Today, the studio formerly known as EA Redwood Shores was in the news again, with Variety revealing a live-action film based on Dead Space is in the works.

Coming soon-ish to a theater near you?

Coming soon-ish to a theater near you?

The Hollywood trade reported that EA has partnered with Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey, the cofounders and heads of the Temple Hill production company. The outfit is also behind the forthcoming Gears of War movie, which is in development at Legendary Pictures and has director Len Wiseman (Underworld, Live Free or Die Hard) attached. It was also involved with the first film based on the popular teen vampire Twilight novels and the forthcoming Nicholas Sparks adaptation, Dear John.

Dead Space, too, has a director on board--D.J. Caruso, who was at the helm of last year's critically panned action-thriller Eagle Eye. Prior to that dubious project, he directed 2007's better reviewed Disturbia and several episodes of the acclaimed TV series The Shield.

No release date or actor information has been revealed for the Dead Space film, which is just one of five EA game-based movies in development. Mass Effect, Dante's Inferno, Army of Two, and The Sims are also being brought to the big screen. Also notably, Dead Space was made into a straight-to-DVD and cable animated feature by Starz Media last year. Finally, the game's plot is reminiscent of several films, such as the horror-thrillers Alien (1979) and Event Horizon (1997).

Today's article also appeared to reveal the future of the Dead Space game series. According to Variety, EA "is working on the second and third installments" in the Dead Space series, raising the possibility of a trilogy. It was unclear if the two projects were the already announced Dead Space: Extraction (see below) or the hinted-at Dead Space 2. "The only Dead Space game that is announced and in development at this time is Dead Space: Extraction," was all an EA rep would say.

247 Comments

  • Jayhawkfan15

    Posted Dec 17, 2009 5:43 pm GMT

    Gears of War movie????????????????????

  • yodathewise

    Posted Oct 28, 2009 6:50 am GMT

    Here's hoping that they won't give the license to Uwe Boll. Oh lord, please not Uwe Boll...

    *Signs anti-Boll petition for the 100th time*

  • gorezombiez

    Posted Oct 14, 2009 1:29 pm GMT

    Wow.A Dead Space movie.This is might be the #1 horror rated R movie of the year.Hope it has good graphics!!I'll buy it when it comes out!

  • astallworth

    Posted Oct 9, 2009 1:14 am GMT

    The Rail Shooter Look's Good At Least You Won't Have To Do Any Annoying Puzzles.

  • astallworth

    Posted Oct 9, 2009 1:11 am GMT

    I'm Pretty Sure The Dead Space Movie Will Be Awesome,No Need To Worry.

  • chsh4

    Posted Oct 8, 2009 1:51 pm GMT

    a dead space movie would be awesome!!! i just hope they don't butcher it. it's happened to way too many great games.

  • h2k47

    Posted Oct 6, 2009 2:53 pm GMT

    I really loved the game. I hope they make more for PC soon. Anyway, a dead space movie would definitely be bloody-based on the game. Lots of ripped parts and gore and disgusting guts splashing out of aliens would be all over the movie. But I won't like such movies. There is a difference between horror and disgust. Watch The Exorcist, thats true horror. Watch 'Living Death', thats disgust. I hope and wish that Dead Space would be of the former.

  • Jex9

    Posted Oct 4, 2009 10:53 am GMT

    I think it would be cool to see how they make the aliens and the guns and the suits, but I would much rather KILL the aliens then WATCH them get killed lol

  • ravanamalice

    Posted Oct 3, 2009 10:39 am GMT

    if they follow the alien movies in terms of knowing how to make something pretty damn great it will be fine.

  • Evilnator

    Posted Oct 3, 2009 9:53 am GMT

    Okay, i loved dead space, but knowing how moves and games down work together.. Anyway only time will tell

  • futurebat

    Posted Oct 3, 2009 6:46 am GMT

    for ME Dead Space was game of the year in 2008 i can't wait for its sequal

  • samissleman17

    Posted Oct 1, 2009 12:47 pm GMT

    guy involved with twilight??? ugh.

  • kosmo501

    Posted Oct 1, 2009 10:46 am GMT

    More fear..More blood...More game for us!!!... I love this game!!

  • LuongoRox1

    Posted Sep 30, 2009 4:59 pm GMT

    @Excedra. I kind of agree. Fallout would not be stupid to make, it's just impossible, same as any RPG or game with branching storylines. Because of the fact that depending on what the gamer does, the story changes, especially a game with Fallout where this are so many possibilities, it's just not possible to make a movie out of it because of the sheer length and amount of possibilities. Dead Space is easier to do, because much of the game was recovering different things to fix the ship, there is enough that can be cut out to fit a 2-2.5 hour movie.

  • LuongoRox1

    Posted Sep 30, 2009 4:54 pm GMT

    God no. Knowing the reputation of game-to-movie transitions, this will be butchered. I'd love to see it in a movie, the story was movie-worthy, but I really hope they don't screw this up. If they do a great job... it would be an intense movie.

  • odst_trooper117

    Posted Sep 30, 2009 11:12 am GMT

    gonna be a cool movie

  • odst_trooper117

    Posted Sep 30, 2009 11:10 am GMT

    @ Xdra, how can you hate the game!? it was one of the best game to come out in 08!!!! what the is wrong with you!!!! sheesh...
    you have no taste for gameing............

  • Xdra

    Posted Sep 9, 2009 12:43 am GMT

    @marshin7 I was shocked they would make such a bad game into a movie for crying out loud. its a joke, its going to be as bad as the doom was. Its such a cliche and bad developed story. The only thing I ever liked about the game was upgrading the suit and the perspective of that game was so incredibly frustrating to run a freaking straight line!
    And I played 3/4 of the game and gave up. Its not worth it!

  • JoshBGosh

    Posted Sep 3, 2009 1:25 am GMT

    I'm sure that the people making this one have learned a lot by watching what audiences really want and need in a movie being translated from a video game. Especially all , or most , or the people who have commented here are the kind that support these movies. So the big studio don't want to screw this one up. If all else fails, we still have the vid-game, huh.