The Dead Space Movie is a film adaptation of the popular video game series about horrific creatures infesting a space ship. An engineer named Isaac Clarke boards the ship and uses futuristic engineering tools to dismember the creatures as he tries to discover the reason behind the infestation.
Director D.J. Caruso (Eagle Eye, Disturbia) is attached to the film, so a solid director with ties to Steven Spielberg is on board. Caruso has shown the talent to direct big action films with science fiction elements, so there may yet be hope for a decent film.
Who’s It For?
One of the main selling points of the game was that you had to dismember the creatures. Expect a hard ‘R’
Movie Release Date
Production hasn’t begun yet, so late 2013 at the earliest.
Who’s In It?
No casting yet, but with Caruso directing, Shia LaBeouf may end up playing Isaac Clarke. Crap.
What’s Good About It?
The game was cool and scary as hell. If the film keeps the same visual style, it could become the next Alien.
What’s Bad About It?
Anytime you have a video game adaptation, the odds are it’ll suck.
Our Clever Prediction
Horror is a genre where you can get away with a lower quality script. Dead Space would need a solid director to pull off the Sci-Fi elements. It’s no coincidence that Ridley Scott directed Alien. Keep your fingers crossed. Dead Space has potential like crazy.
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The cool thing would be if they do it right would be since the character models for all the characters kendra hammond mercer amd kyne were all modeled after the actual actors that did there voices and ive seen movies with them in it they are good actors getting them would be key!
AJ,
AJ,
Its not about the first game its about what happens from end of dead space 1 to begining of 2
Hopefully Hollywood learned its lesson with Doom. I cried when i found out how they changed 80% of its script. If they stick to the game’s story to the letter, and have good effects/actors. It will be up there with the Resident Evil’s imo.
Well I love the game with a passion and expect the movie to keep to this games script/story But It wasn’t just about Isaac it was also (Spoilers ahead if you haven’t finished game) Kendra, Hammond, Mercer and Dr. Kyne and what Reasons/vid logs show whats been happening to explain to everyone whats happened leading into the events and also before the games story begin I’d love to have them start with the Comics that show the events of Finding the Marker and what happens on the colony before the game I feel it plays a big part within the Story But Can’t wait to see this movie but it will be hard to embody Isaac since he doesn’t speak or show much emotion hopefully they can hire the Voice actor from Dead Space 2 to act as Isaac for the movie and just swap him and a person who looks like Isaac when he’ll remove the helmet to show some emotion but Sorry for the rant or stupidity again love this game and don’t wanna see it destroyed like other gaming movies have done to previous titles
1st. if they keep the same game style, this will be an amazing movie!! do you happen to know if they’ll be putting in only the first game, or the second game as well? i know its a dumb question, considering its not even released, but itd be pretty nifty if they could put some parts in. all in all, im just hoping and praying that they keep the same style to it.
@Cyrus, I think they’re going to focus mostly on the first game, although they’ll no doubt flush out the story a bit. A film with basically one character fighting monsters could be scary, but it would likely fall flat in the story department. I’d expect it to be closer in style to a horror where a group of people tries to survive and the main character is searching for his lost love. No doubt they’ll mess around with the story because Hollywood writers think they’re smarter than everyone else.
I just hope they keep the visual style.